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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CIRCULAR MIL

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Circular mil is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CIRCULAR MIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Circular mil

A circular mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a circle with a diameter of one mil. It corresponds to 5.067×10-4 mm². It is a unit intended for referring to the area of a wire with a circular cross section. As the area in circular mils can be calculated without reference to π, the unit makes conversion between cross section and diameter of a wire slightly easier. The area in circular mils, A, of a circle with a diameter of d mils, is given by the formula: Electricians in Canada and the United States are familiar with the circular mil because the National Electrical Code uses the circular mil to define wire sizes larger than 0000 AWG. In many NEC publications and uses, large wires may be expressed in thousands of circular mils, which is abbreviated in two different ways: MCM or kcmil. For example, one common wire size used in the NEC has a cross-section of 250,000 circular mils, written as 250 kcmil or 250 MCM, which is the first size larger than 0000 AWG used within the NEC.

Definition of circular mil in the English dictionary

The definition of circular mil in the dictionary is a unit of area of cross section of wire, equal to the area of a circle whose diameter is one thousandth of an inch. 1 circular mil is equal to 0.785 × 10–6 square inch or 0.2 × 10–9 square metre.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CIRCULAR MIL

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Synonyms and antonyms of circular mil in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «circular mil» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CIRCULAR MIL

Find out the translation of circular mil to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of circular mil from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «circular mil» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

环形MIL
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mil circular
570 millions of speakers

English

circular mil
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परिपत्र लाख
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مل دائري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

круговой мил
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mil circular
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিজ্ঞপ্তি মিল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mil circulaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pekeliling mil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rundsteckverbinder
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

サーキュラーミル
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

원형 MIL
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Circular mil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

triệu tròn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்று மில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परिपत्रक मिरर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dairesel mil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mil circolare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

okólnik mil
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кругової міл
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mil circular
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυκλική mil
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omsendbrief mil
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cirkulär mil
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sirkulær mil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of circular mil

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CIRCULAR MIL»

The term «circular mil» is normally little used and occupies the 125.669 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about circular mil

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CIRCULAR MIL»

Discover the use of circular mil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to circular mil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Basic Industrial Electricity: A Training and Maintenance Manual
The circular mil is the standard unit of wire cross-sectional area used in American and English wire tables. Because the diameters of round conductors, or wires, used to conduct electricity may be only a small fraction of an inch, it is convenient  ...
Kenneth G. Oliver, 1990
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Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant Operations, ...
Solution: The thickness may be expressed in mils as 0.625 × 1000 = 625 mils and the width as 5 × 1000 = 5000 mils. The cross-sectional area is 625 × 5000, or 3,125,000 square mils. 10.19.3 CirCUlar Mil The circular mil is the standard unit of ...
Frank R. Spellman, 2013
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Industrial Electricity
To measure circular conductors (wires and cables), the unit circular mil is used. To measure rectangular conductors (bus bars), the unit square mil is used. One circular mil is the area of a circle 1 mil in diameter. One square mil is the area of a  ...
Michael Brumbach, 2010
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Electricity and Controls for HVAC-R
The circular mil area of a wire can be found by finding the diameter of the wire in thousandths of an inch (1 mil = ^ inch) and squaring that number. (Squaring a number means to multiply that number by itself.) For example, assume a piece of  ...
Stephen Herman, Bennie Sparkman, 2009
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Audel Questions and Answers for Electrician's Examinations
The circular mil area of any solid cylindrical wire is equal to the wire's diameter ( expressed in mils) squared. For example, the area in circular mils (written CM or cir. mils) of a wire having a diameter of 3⁄8 inch (0.375) equals 375 375 3752 ...
Paul Rosenberg, 2003
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Audel Practical Electricity
Figure 2-2 Enlarged view of circular mil and square mil. The question may be asked why we make a comparison of the circular mil and the square mil. If a square conductor is to be re- placed by a round conductor, or vice versa, we must use ...
Paul Rosenberg, Robert Gordon Middleton, 2004
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Basic Electricity
I MIL SQUARE MIL (A) I MIL CIRCULAR MIL (B) SQUARE AND CIRCULAR MIL ( C) BE. 125 Figure 7-1.— (A) Square mil; (B) circular mil; (C) comparison of circular to square mil. Therefore, a wire 1 mil in diameter has an area of A = 0.7854 x ...
United States. Dept. of the Army, Naval Education and Training Program Development Center, 1977
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Environmental Health and Science Desk Reference
Circular Mil The circular mil is the standard unit of wire cross-sectional area used in most wire tables. To avoid the use of decimals (because most wires used to conduct electricity may be only a small fraction of an inch), it is convenient to ...
Frank R. Spellman, Revonna M. Bieber, 2012
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Handbook of Mathematics and Statistics for the Environment
11.7.9.3 Circular Mil The circular mil is the standard unit of wire cross-sectional area used in most wire tables. To avoid the use of decimals (because most wires used to conduct electricity may be only a small fraction of an inch), it is convenient ...
Frank R. Spellman, Nancy E. Whiting, 2013
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The Handbook of Safety Engineering: Principles and Applications
A circular mil is the area of a circle having a diameter of 1 mil, as shown in figure 13.1B. The area in circular mils of a round conductor is obtained by squaring the diameter measured in mils. Thus, a wire having a diameter of 25 mils has an ...
Frank R. Spellman, Nancy E. Whiting, 2009

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CIRCULAR MIL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term circular mil is used in the context of the following news items.
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A new VITA specification is set to enable rugged systems the size of …
A standard front panel features circular MIL connectors, but specific customer requirements can be met. While Themis has produced a device ... «New Electronics, Mar 15»
2
Miniature Ethernet Switch meets military standards.
Both the DuraNET 20-12 and the earlier announced DuraNET 20-11, which differs in that it features circular MIL-DTL-39999-like connectors ... «ThomasNet News, Jan 15»
3
Beyond Basics: Connecting, Disconnecting Motors
The units used to size electrical wire are the circular mil (CM). A circle that has a diameter of one mil (0.001 in.) is said to have an area of 1 CM. «ACHR NEWS, Oct 14»
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Composite-cored conductors: Holding the line
(The abbreviation kcmil stands for thousand circular mil. A circular mil is the cross-sectional area of a cable with a diameter of 1 mil. One kcmil ... «High Performance Composites, Feb 13»
5
Ruggedized network components keep critical data flowing
... locking headers that terminate into circular MIL-DTL-38999-type connectors designed for resistance against dust, water, vibration and shock. «Defense Systems, Aug 12»
6
Multicore Processors Manage Massive Military Data Flows
Like many ATR enclosures, it uses standard, circular MIL-DTL-38999 I/O connectors. 3. Elma's 3U VPX Mini ATR is only 133 by 180 by 250 mm ... «Electronic Design, Jun 12»
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Key changes in the 2011 NEC
... the rules are now much more restrictive because each conductor must be: the same length, same conductor material, same circular mil area, ... «Consulting-Specifying Engineer, Mar 12»
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Noel Lee: The Monster is 10!
A circular mil area is a circular mil area: you should have a certain damping and that should be it. So the first Monster Cable was designed by ... «Stereophile Magazine, Jul 07»

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