SIL

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SIL, Sil and sil may refer to:

In organizations:

• SIL International, a global Christian non-profit organization that studies lesser-known languages.
• SIL, formerly the American Stock Exchange ticker symbol for Apex Silver Mines.
• Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, former name for the International Society of Limnology.
• Society for Individual Liberty, later part of the International Society for Individual Liberty.
• Scooters India Limited, formed when the Indian government purchased Lambretta.
• Southwest International League, a defunct American minor league baseball league.

In science and technology:

• Solid immersion lens, a device usually used in optical microscopy.
• Standard Interchange Language, a language standard used for the information exchange between software.
• Software-in-the-Loop, a method used in regression testing.
• Sil, a vector drawing program for the Xerox Star computer system.
• SIL, an alternate symbol for the human gene STIL.
• Squamous intraepithelial lesion, abnormal tissue situated within a squamous epithelium.

In fiction:

• Sil (Doctor Who), a villain from the British science-fiction series Doctor Who.
• Sil, a character in the film Species.
• Silvio Dante, a character on The Sopranos.

In people:

• Narasingha Sil, historian.
• Sil Campusano, a former Major League Baseball player.
• Sil Austin, a jazz saxophonist.
• Sil, a member of the Dutch rap-metal band Urban Dance Squad.

Other uses:

• Sil River, a river in Galicia, Spain.
• Sile River, also called the "Sil River", in Italy.
• SIL code, a three-letter language code used in SIL International's Ethnologue.
• sil, the ISO 639-3 language code for Tumulung Sisaala.
• South Island Line, a plan of MTR Hong Kong.
• Safety Integrity Level, a measure of performance required for a safety instrumented system.
• Silverstone Circuit, an English motor racing circuit.
• Son-in-law or sister-in-law, in on-line and text messaging usage.
• Silence-Lotto, the UCI code for the professional road bicycle racing team.

[edit] See also

• Common Intermediate Language, sometimes pronounced "sil".

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