milestone A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway line, canal or boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks; or they can give their position on the route relative to so ...

is a marker of distance along roads. Milestone may also refer to:

Measurements

Milestone (project management) Milestones are tools used in project management to mark specific points along a project timeline. These points may signal anchors such as a project start and end date, or a need for external review or input and budget checks. Some contracts for pr ...

, metaphorically, markers of reaching an identifiable stage in any task or the project *Software release life cycle state, see

Pre-alpha A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help impro ...

Developmental milestones Child development stages are the theoretical milestones of child development, some of which are asserted in nativist theories. This article discusses the most widely accepted developmental stages in children. There exists a wide variation i ...

, tasks most children can perform at certain ages

Geography

* Milestone (Arlington, Massachusetts), a historic milestone in Arlington, Massachusetts *

Milestone (electoral district) Milestone is a List of Saskatchewan provincial electoral districts, former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, south of Regina, Saskatchewan, Reg ...

, a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, Canada * Milestone, County Tipperary, a village in Ireland * Milestone, Saskatchewan, Canada * Milestone, Virginia, United States

Literature

* ''Milestones'' (play), a 1912 play by Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblock * ''Milestones'' (book), a 1964 book by Egyptian Islamist Sayyid Qutb *''Milestones I'' (1983) and ''Milestones II'' (1985), by Jack Chambers * ''Milestones'' (magazine), a Christadelphian magazine

Film and TV

* ''Milestones'' (1916 film), British silent drama film based on the Arnold Bennett play * ''Milestones'' (1920 film), American silent drama film based on the Arnold Bennett play * ''Milestones'' (1975 film), by Robert Kramer and John Douglas

Music

* Milestone Records, a jazz record label

Bands

Milestones (Austrian band) Milestones, also referred as The Milestones (per the Eurovision official web site), were an Austrian rock band, active between 1968 and 1975. They are known for their participation in the 1972 Eurovision Song Contest. 1968-1972 The band's origi ...

, a 1970s Austrian band * The Milestones, a 1990s Pakistani band *

Milestones (British band) Milestones were a British pop rock band from Manchester, England, formed in 2014. The band consisted of vocalist Matt Clarke, guitarist and vocalist Andrew Procter, bassist Mark Threlfall, and guitarist Eden Leviston. History They released thei ...

, a British pop rock band

Albums

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Stan Kenton's Milestones ''Stan Kenton's Milestones'' is an album by pianist and bandleader Stan Kenton compiling performances recorded between 1943 and 1947 and originally collected on the Capitol label as a 10-inch LP in 1950 then reissued as a 12-inch LP with additiona ...

'', by Stan Kenton, 1950 * ''Milestones'' (Miles Davis album), 1958 * ''Milestones'' (Rolling Stones album), 1972 * ''Milestones'' (Roy Orbison album), 1973 * ''Milestones'' (Great Jazz Trio album), 1978 * ''Milestone'' (Gideon album), 2012 * ''Milestones'' (Riff Regan album), 2015 * ''Milestone'' (Chrisette Michele album), 2016 * ''Milestone'' (Lead album), 2018

Songs

*"Milestones", a 1947

John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...

composition credited to Miles Davis * "Milestones" (instrumental composition), by Miles Davis from the 1958 album of the same name * "Milestone" (song), by BoA

Brands and enterprises

* Milestone (herbicide), a Dow AgroSciences brand name for aminopyralid *

Milestone Films Milestone Film and Video is an independent film distribution company, founded in 1990 in the United States by Dennis Doros and Amy Heller. The company researches and distributes cinematographic material from around the world, including silent film, ...

, an American film distributor * MileStone Inc., a Japanese arcade video game developer * Milestone Media, an American comic book publisher * Milestone (Italian company), an Italian video game developer * Milestones Grill and Bar, a Canadian restaurant chain * Motorola Milestone, a GSM version of the Android-based smartphone * Motorola Milestone 2, a GSM version of the Android-based smartphone * ''Milestones'' (video game), a 1981 video game

People with the surname

Lewis Milestone Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein (Russian: Лейб Мильштейн); September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Moldovan-American film director. He is known for directing '' Two Arabian Knights'' (1927) and ''All Quiet on the Weste ...

(1895–1980), Russian-American film director {{Disambiguation, geo