milestone A milestone is a numbered marker placed on a route such as a road, railway, railway line, canal or border, boundary. They can indicate the distance to towns, cities, and other places or landmarks like Mileage sign, mileage signs; or they c ...

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 ...

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

Pre-alpha The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists of several stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the fi ...

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 ...

, tasks most children can perform at certain ages

Geography

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

Milestone (electoral district) Milestone is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, south of Regina. Originally named "South Regina", this constituency was one of 25 created for the 1st Saskatchewan gener ...

, 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 Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City. The company was bought by Fantasy Records in 1972. Since then, it has produced LP reissues (including items from Ke ...

, 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 The Milestones () were a Pakistani pop rock band that formed in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, in 1990. The group was formed by lead guitarist, Ziyyad Gulzar and bassist, Ali Tim, who were soon joined by female lead vocalist, Candy Pereira. The Mil ...

, 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 Records, Capitol label as a 10-inch LP in 1950 then reissued as a 12-inch ...

'', 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'' (The Temptations album), 1991 * ''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 civil rights activist and politician 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 *Milestones Early Learning Centres, an Australian childcare provider owned by

Quadrant Private Equity Quadrant Private Equity (also simply known as Quadrant) is an Australian private equity investment firm based in Sydney, Australia. The company was founded as Quadrant Capital in 1996 by Chris Hadley. Hadley now serves as the firm’s Executive ...

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 Milestone Media Company LLC is the media company which created the Milestone Comics line, which were published and distributed by DC Comics. Milestone Media created the source material that was adapted as the '' Static Shock'' animated series. T ...

, an American comic book publisher *

Milestone (Italian company) Milestone S.r.l. is an Italian video game developer based in Milan. Founded in 1994 by Antonio Farina, the studio specialises in racing games, especially motorcycle racing games. The company began under the name Graffiti, developing the car rac ...

, an Italian video game developer *

Milestones Grill and Bar Milestones Restaurants Inc. (doing business as Milestones Grill and Bar) is a restaurant chain owned by Foodtastic. There are over 40 locations across British Columbia, Alberta, New Brunswick, Ontario, Nova Scotia, and Quebec. History The fir ...

, a Canadian restaurant chain *

Motorola Milestone The Motorola Droid (GSM/UMTS version branded as Motorola Milestone) is a smartphone designed by Motorola, which runs on Google's Android operating system. It was released in late 2009 and was an important "comeback" product for Motorola. Feature ...

, 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 an American film director. Milestone directed '' Two Arabian Knights'' (1927) and '' All Quiet on the Western Front'' (1 ...

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