SIL, Sil and sil may refer to:

Organizations

Smithsonian Institution Libraries Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is an institutional archives and library system comprising 21 branch libraries serving the various Smithsonian Institution museums and research centers. The Libraries and Archives serve Smithsonian Institution ...

SIL International SIL Global (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics International) is an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, to expan ...

, formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics *

Apex Silver Mines Golden Minerals (formerly known as Apex Silver Mines), was founded by Thomas Kaplan, from Denver, Colorado. It is a US-American transnational mining corporation with a tax haven address in the Cayman Islands. Following its reorganization under Ch ...

(former American Stock Exchange ticker symbol) * Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, now International Society of Limnology * Society for Individual Liberty *

Scooters India Limited Lambretta () was a brand of motor scooters, manufactured in Milan, Italy, by Innocenti. The name is derived from the word Lambrate, the suburb of Milan named after the river Lambro which flows through the area, and where the factory was loca ...

Science and technology

* Solid immersion lens for microscope *

Standard Interchange Language The Standard Interchange Language Thayer, Warren. "Can SIL break the computer language barrier? The Standard Interchange Language — a data exchange standard designed with wholesalers in mind — may give retail systems integration a big boost", '' ...

, for information exchange between software * Software-in-the-Loop, in software testing; see

Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems or ASAM is an incorporated association under German law. Its members are primarily international car manufacturers, suppliers and engineering service providers from the automot ...

* STIL or SIL, a human gene *

Surge impedance loading The characteristic impedance or surge impedance (usually written Z0) of a uniform transmission line is the ratio of the amplitudes of voltage and current of a wave travelling in one direction along the line in the absence of reflections in th ...

of electrical transmission lines * Squamous intraepithelial lesion * Safety Integrity Level of a safety function * Speech Interference Level, an acoustical parameter *

SIL Open Font License The SIL Open Font License (or OFL in short) is one of the major open font licenses, which allows embedding, or "bundling", of the font in commercially sold products. OFL is a free and open source license. It was created by SIL Global, the ...

Fiction

Sil (Doctor Who) Over the course of its many years on television, the long-running British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' has not only seen changes in the actors to play Doctor (Doctor Who)#Changing faces, the Doc ...

, a villain in the TV series * Sil, a character in the film ''

Species A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), ...

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Silvio Dante Silvio Manfred Dante is a fictional character on the HBO TV series ''The Sopranos'', portrayed by Steven Van Zandt. He is the consigliere and right-hand man to Tony Soprano in the DiMeo crime family. John Magaro portrays a young Silvio Dante ...

, a character in ''The Sopranos''

People

* Narasingha Sil (born 1937), historian * Sil Campusano (born 1965), a former baseball player *

Sil Austin Sylvester Austin (September 17, 1929 – September 1, 2001) was an American jazz saxophonist. He had his biggest success in an overtly commercial rather than jazz vein, but he regarded Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Sonny Stitt as his major ...

(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 * Sil (village), a small village on the northwestern part of Soledar, Ukraine.

Transport

South Island line The South Island line () is a rapid transit line of Hong Kong's MTR metro system. This line connects the Hong Kong business district from Admiralty station to the Southern District of Hong Kong Island and the island of Ap Lei Chau, wh ...

, Hong Kong

Other uses

Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered to the southeast by Liberia and by Guinea to the north. Sierra Leone's land area is . It has a tropical climate and envi ...

, UNDP country code * 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 *

sister-in-law A sibling-in-law is the spouse of one's sibling or the sibling of one’s spouse. More commonly, a sibling-in-law is referred to as a brother-in-law for a male sibling-in-law and a sister-in-law for a female sibling-in-law. Sibling-in-law al ...