SIL explained

SIL, Sil and sil may refer to:

Organizations

Servis Industries Limited, Pakistan
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
SIL International, formerly Summer Institute of Linguistics
Apex Silver Mines (former American Stock Exchange ticker symbol)
Societas Internationalis Limnologiae, now International Society of Limnology
Society for Individual Liberty
Scooters India Limited

Science and technology

Solid immersion lens for microscope
Standard Interchange Language, for information exchange between software
Software-in-the-Loop, in software testing; see Association for Standardisation of Automation and Measuring Systems
STIL or SIL, a human gene
Surge impedance loading of electrical transmission lines
Squamous intraepithelial lesion
Safety Integrity Level of a safety function
Speech Interference Level, an acoustical parameter
SIL Open Font License

Fiction

Sil (Doctor Who), a villain in the TV series
Sil, a character in the film Species
Silvio Dante, a character in The Sopranos

People

Narasingha Sil (born 1937), historian
Sil Campusano (born 1965), a former baseball player
Sil Austin (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, Hong Kong

Other uses

Sierra Leone, 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

See also