XPost: sci.electronics.equipment   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:21:10 +0100, Tom Gardner    
   wrote:   
      
   > On 12/07/20 19:01, Pimpom wrote:   
   >> On 7/12/2020 11:15 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>> On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:23:31 +0100, Cydrome Leader    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> In sci.electronics.equipment Pimpom  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>>> My mechanical slide caliper has a resolution of 0.001 inch. This   
   >>>>> means that it can display measurements with a precision of 1 mil,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What if your caliper had a resolution of 1 mil +/- 3 counts on the last   
   >>>> digit?   
   >> .............   
   >>>   
   >>> In America, what is a "mill"?  In the UK, it used to mean a thousandth of   
   an   
   >>> inch, but people use it to mean a millimetre nowadays.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> It's not a mill. It's mil - single l. It means, and has always meant, a   
   >> thousandth of an inch. It's not an Americanism.   
   >   
   > In the UK "mill" means millilitre.   
   >   
   > If you want to refer to fractions of an inch, then   
   > it is /always/ "thou", i.e. thousandths of an inch.   
   >   
   > In the UK "mil/mill" /never/ means 0.001".   
      
   Yes it does.  My neighbour's a tradesman (in Scotland) and says "mill/mil" (I   
   don't know which as they sound the same in speech) as shorthand for   
   millimetre.  As in "that kitchen unit is 600 mill wide".  Since we don't use   
   inches for such things in the    
   UK, there's no confusion.   
      
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