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MIL

Plastic bags and sheets have a thickness measured in mils — as in "2 mil."

What unit of measurement does that refer to?

Can't be micrometers, milliliters, millimeters, million, military, or mother-in-law ... so ... ?
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_%28length%29

"A thou (pronounced /'?a?/, also known as a mil or point, is a unit of length equal to 0.001 inch (a "milli-inch", one thousandth of an inch). It is sometimes used in engineering and in the specification of:

* the thickness of items such as paper, film, foil, wires, paint coatings, latex gloves, plastic sheeting, and fibers; and
* manufacturing dimensions and tolerances.
* in the manufacture of automobile engines [A typical example is the thickness of the head gasket, or the ammount of material to be removed from the head to adjust the compression ratio of the cylinders.]

In the United States, as the metric system became more common thou began to replace mil among technical users due to the possible confusion with millimeters.[1][2][3] However, the mil is still in common use in the United States for the thickness of plastic sheeting or bags."
 
mil = 1/1000 of an inch. When you buy trash bags, aluminum foil you can get the best deal by looking for the MIL on the box.
 
I've always used Mils as a measure of angle, as the military uses them.

1 degree ~ 17.7 mils.

Works nicely with the metric system when you need to estimate range or size. 1 mil at 1000 meters is 1 meter wide.

So if you see a man (estimating 2 meters in height) who measures 4 mils tall in your scope, you can calculate that he is standing 500 meters from you.... adjust range on your rifle accordingly, proceed to get surprise headshot. booya

edit, this is known as an Angular Mil and the above usage with the metric system is based on "NATO Mil" which is 6400 mils in a circle, the USSR used 6000, Sweden uses 6300, and 6283 is used for telescopes and rangefinding devices
 
believe it or not i check urbandictionary for all these things these days. Dang teenagers and their bff jill.
 
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