What is 20mil in Calibers?

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What is 20 Mils (20mil) in Calibers (cl)?

What is 20mil in cl? Convert 20 Mils (20mil) to Calibers (cl) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Mils to Calibers

Formula
cl = mil / 10
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Calibers, divide the number of Mils by 10.0
Mils (mil) in 1 Caliber
There are 10 Mils in 1 Caliber
Calibers (cl) in 1 Mil
There are 0.1 Calibers in 1 Mil

Unit Information

Mil
/mɪl/
Symbol: mil
Unit System: Imperial

What is the Mil?

The mil is a unit of length in the imperial unit system and uses the symbol mil (or sometimes thou).

A mil in one one-thousandth of an inch (0.001 inches) or 25.4 μm.

The mil is still used in the US to measure thickness of various materials.

Caliber
/ˈkalɪbə/
Symbol: cl
Unit System: Imperial

What is the Caliber?

The caliber is a unit of length based on the inch (imperial units) and uses the symbol cl.

It represents the internal diameter of a gun barrel and therefore more often than not, the size of the ammunition or round that gun requires to fire.

It is not always represented or converted exactly in inches so a table or "well-known" conversions are often used to depict measurements / ammo types instead.


Conversion Tables for Mils (mil) to Calibers (cl)