Mel, Mels or MEL may refer to:

Biology

Mouse erythroleukemia cell line The mouse-derived erythroleukemia cell line F4N (MEL) is an aneuploid cell line, comes from mouse inbred strain DBA/2. It was established in 1977. Eight percent of the total number of cells in culture undergo spontaneous apoptosis.National Herbarium of Victoria The National Herbarium of Victoria (Index Herbariorum code: MEL) is one of Australia's earliest herbaria and the oldest scientific institution in Victoria. Its 1.56 million specimens of preserved plants, fungi and algae—collectively known ...

, a herbarium with the Index Herbariorum code MEL

People

Mel (given name) Mel can be the abbreviated version of the given names Melech, Melike, Melvyn, Melvin, Amelia, Melfyn, Melanie, Melika, Melhem, Melina, Melinda, Melody, Melissa, Melita/Melitta, Melantha/Melanthe, Melchior, Melindro or Melville. It is als ...

, the abbreviated version of several given names (including a list of people with the name) *

Mel (surname) Mel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Melle Mel (born Melvin Glover in 1961), hip-hop musician and songwriter *Pepe Mel (born 1963), Spanish retired footballer and current manager of Real Betis *Ashantha de Mel (born 1959), Sr ...

Manuel Zelaya José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born 20 September 1952)Encyclopædia BritannicaManuel Zelaya is a Hondurans, Honduran politician who served as the 35th president of Honduras from 2006 until his forcible removal in the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, 2 ...

, former president of Honduras, nicknamed "Mel"

Places

Mel, Veneto Mel was a ''comune'' (municipality) in the province of Belluno in the Italy, Italian region of Veneto, located about north of Venice and about southwest of Belluno and about northeast of Feltre. It Fusion of Italian municipalities, merged wit ...

, an ex-comune in Italy * Mel Moraine, a moraine in Antarctica *

Melbourne Airport Melbourne Airport , known locally as Tullamarine Airport, is an international airport serving Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Operating 24/7 service, 24 hours a day with on-site parking, shopping and dining, Melbourne Airport is the List of th ...

(IATA airport code) *

Mels Mels is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Sarganserland in the Seeztal, canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. History Mels is first mentioned in 765 as ''Maile'' though this comes from a later copy of the original document. ...

, a municipality in Switzerland *

Métropole Européenne de Lille The Métropole Européenne de Lille (, MEL; ) is the , an intercommunal structure, composed by a network of big cities ( Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Armentières etc.) whose major city is the city of Lille. It is located in ...

(MEL), the intercommunality of Lille in France

Technology and engineering

* Maya Embedded Language, a scripting language used in the 3D graphics program Maya * Michigan eLibrary, an online service of the Library of Michigan * Ford MEL engine, a "Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln" engine series * Minimum equipment list, a categorized list of instruments and equipment on an aircraft * Miscellaneous electric load, the electricity use of appliances, electronics and other small electric devices in buildings

Arts and entertainment

* ''Mel'' (film), a 1998 film with Ernest Borgnine * ''Mel'' (album), a 1979 album by Maria Bethânia * Portal Stories: Mel, a mod of the video game Portal 2

Other uses

Mel languages The Mel languages are a branch of Niger–Congo languages spoken in Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia. The most populous is Temne, with about two million speakers; Kissi is next, with half a million. Languages Mel has traditiona ...

, spoken in western Africa *

Mel scale The mel scale (after the word ''melody'') is a perceptual scale of pitches judged by listeners to be equal in distance from one another. The reference point between this scale and normal frequency measurement is defined by assigning a percept ...

, a scale for measuring auditory pitches as perceived by the human ear *

Meldreth railway station Meldreth railway station serves the villages of Meldreth and Melbourn in Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia. It is bordered by ...

, a British railway station with station code MEL *

Melton railway station, Melbourne Melton railway station is a regional railway station on the Ararat line, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the outer-western suburb of Melton South, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It opened on 2 April 1884. The station is ...

Midland Expressway Ltd The M6 Toll, referred to on some signs as the Midland Expressway (originally named the Birmingham Northern Relief Road or BNRR), and stylised as M6toll, connects M6 motorway, M6 Junction 3a at the Coleshill Interchange to M6 Junction 11A at Wo ...

, operator of the UK M6 Toll road *

Musical Electronics Library The Musical Electronics Library (or MEL) is a lending library of homemade electronic musical devices in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, and is a worldwide leader in the Scavengetronica movement. The library contains electrolytic capacitor ...

, a lending library of homemade electronic musical devices in New Zealand *

Mullard Equipment Limited Mullard Limited was a British manufacturer of electronics, electronic components. The Mullard Radio Valve Co. Ltd. of Southfields, London, was founded in 1920 by Captain Stanley R. Mullard, who had previously designed thermionic valves (US ...

, a former British electronics company * Minimum Equipment List, a regulation for airplanes - see

Master minimum equipment list In aviation safety, master minimum equipment list, or MMEL, is a categorized list of on-board systems, instruments and equipment that may be inoperative for flight in a specified aircraft model. Procedures or conditions may be associated with item ...

* ''Mel'', an online magazine published by

Dollar Shave Club Dollar Shave Club, Inc. is an American company based in Venice, California, that delivers razors and other personal grooming products to customers by mail. It delivers razor blades on a monthly basis and offers additional grooming products fo ...

Honey Honey is a sweet and viscous substance made by several species of bees, the best-known of which are honey bees. Honey is made and stored to nourish bee colonies. Bees produce honey by gathering and then refining the sugary secretions of pl ...