per mill

or per mil

[ pur mil, per ]

/ ˌpɜr ˈmɪl, pər /

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adverb

per thousand.

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Origin of per mill

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby per mill

permeated, per mensem, Permian, Permic, permie, per mill, permillage, permissible, permission, permissive, permissiveness

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How to use per mill in a sentence

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
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The “doctorate” Duke claims is from an anti-Semitic Ukranian “diploma mill” as described by the State Department.
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During an emergency that ratio could be allowed to drop to 8.5 people per orbit.
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Well over a thousand holes in, I average less than four strokes per hole.
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At least one child in CAR has been killed or gravely injured per day, and 10,000 have been recruited into militant groups.
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But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.
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I doubt that thirty persons per day are carried into or brought out of it by all public conveyances whatever.
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The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.
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At this period it brought enormous prices, the finest selling at from fifteen to eighteen shillings per pound.
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In 1205 wheat was worth 12 pence per bushel, which was cheap, as there had been some years of famine previous thereto.
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British Dictionary definitions for per mill

per mill

per mil

/ (pə ˈmɪl) /

adverb

by the thousand or in each thousand

Word Origin for per mill

C19: from per + French or Latin mille thousand, on the model of per cent

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