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Mil has two separate informal or technical uses. In engineering, a mil is a unit of length equal to one thousandth of an inch, used for very thin things like wire or paint layers. In casual speech, especially about money, 'mil' is short for 'million' — 'five mil' means five million dollars.
(工程)千分之一英吋;(口語,金錢)百萬
組成Shortened from 'million' (money) or from a Latin word for a thousand (the length unit).
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
milnoun詞源 1/mɪl/
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An angular mil, a unit of angular measurement equal to ¹⁄₆₄₀₀ of a complete circle. At 1000 metres one mil subtends about one metre (0.98 m). Also ¹⁄₆₀₀₀ and ¹⁄₆₃₀₀ are used in other countries.
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A unit of measurement equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of an inch (25.4 µm), usually used for thin objects, such as sheets of plastic.
- For this task, I prefer the plastic sheeting that is 10 mils thick.
- If made of plastic, is minimum of at least 2.25 mils (thousandths of an inch) thick.
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A former subdivision (¹⁄₁₀₀₀) of the Maltese lira.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。