SIL

SIL, Sil and sil may refer to:

Organizations

• Servis Industries Limited, Pakistan
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
• SIL International, formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics
• Apex Silver Mines (former American Stock Exchange ticker symbol)
• Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, now International Society of Limnology
• Society for Individual Liberty
• Scooters India Limited

Science and technology

• Solid immersion lens for microscope
• Standard Interchange Language, for information exchange between software
• Software-in-the-Loop, in software testing; see Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems
• STIL or SIL, a human gene
• Surge impedance loading of electrical transmission lines
• Squamous intraepithelial lesion
• Safety Integrity Level of a safety Function
• Speech Interference Level, an acoustical parameter
• SIL Open Font License

Fiction

• Sil (Doctor Who), a villain in Doctor Who TV series
• Sil, a character in the film Species
• Silvio Dante, a character in The Sopranos

People

• Narasingha Sil (born 1937), historian
• Sil Campusano (born 1965), a former baseball player
• Sil Austin (1929–2001), American jazz saxophonist
• Sil, member of the Dutch rap-metal band Urban Dance Squad
• Silvy De Bie or Sil (born 1981), Belgian singer
• Sil, project name of Dutch house musician Olav Basoski (born 1968)

Places

• Sil (river), Galicia, Spain
• Sile (river), Italy, also called Sil

Texting

• Silence
• Sister-in-Law
• Son-in-Law

Other uses

• Tumulung Sisaala (ISO 639-3 language code), a language
• Silence-Lotto (UCI code), a bicycle racing team
• SIL code, a 3-letter language code used by SIL International

See also

• Common Intermediate Language, sometimes pronounced "sil"
• Sill (disambiguation)
• Sils (disambiguation)
• CIL (disambiguation)