mi Lとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /mɪl/
• 韻: -ɪl
• Homophone: mill

語源 1

Ultimately from Latin millesimum. The clippings come by way of the clipped words (e.g., millilitre, millimetre, milliradian). The metric units come about via clipping of translingual milli- (“SI prefix”)

名詞

mil (plural mils)

1. An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ⁄₆₀₀₀ and ⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.
2. A unit of measurement equal to ⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.

   Alternative form: mill

   Synonym: thou

   For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick.

   • 2013, “ORDINANCE NO. 2422”, in City of Davis‎, archived from the original on 1 April 2014, page 4:

     If made of plastic, is minimum of at least 2.25 mils (thousandths of an inch) thick.

3. A former subdivision (⁄₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira.
4. (informal) Clipping of milliliter.

   Synonyms: mL, ml, cm³, cc

   We told her to give her daughter ten mils of cough syrup and to call us back if the cough gets worse.

5. (informal) Clipping of millimeter.

   Alternative form: mill

   Synonym: mm

   Synonym: (military) mike-mike

   For this task, I prefer the plastic bars that are 10 mils in diameter.

   • 2025, Gupi, “kutna hora”, performed by Food House:

     Party like it's 2024, hear a knocking at my door / It's the police let them in, bust a 9 mil through their skin

6. (informal) Clipping of milliradian.

   A dot in a mil-dot reticle represents one mil, which corresponds to a few inches at 100 yards.

派生語

参考

語源 2

Clipping of million.

名詞

mil (plural mil)

1. (informal) Clipping of million.

   Word has it that they were offered a cool ten mil to sell their farm to the land developers.

   • 2009, Bob Frey, The DVD Murders, page 39:

     The cheapest shack in this part of the woods would probably set the buyer back at least a couple of mil.

   • 2010 September, Galen Gondolfi, "Idea Fun(d)", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 79:

     You can get things done without money, but you can do a hell of a lot more with it, and $10 mil is a good starting point.

語源 3

Clipping of military.

形容詞

mil (not comparable)

1. Clipping of military

派生語

• mil-spec

関連する語

アナグラム

• ILM, -lim-, lim, MLI, Lim

発音

• IPA: /miːl/

名詞

mīl f

1. mile
   • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

     Sardina is þrī and þrītti mīla lang, and twā and twentiġ mīla brād.

     Sardinia is thirty-three miles long, and twenty-two miles wide.

語形変化

Strong ō-stem:

派生した語

• Middle English: myle, mile
  • English: mile
  • Scots: mile
  • → Irish: míle

アナグラム

• ILM, -lim-, lim, Lim, MLI