millis

Millis is a term that may refer to several subjects. In the United States, the best-known use is Millis, Massachusetts, a town in Norfolk County. Located in the greater Boston area, Millis combines rural character with suburban development and has a local government headed by a board of selectmen and a town administrator. The town provides typical municipal services and maintains several community facilities and schools.

Millis can also be a surname. It appears in historical records and genealogies and has been borne by various individuals across different fields.

In computing and programming, millis is a common shorthand for milliseconds, the unit of time equal to one thousandth of a second. The term is widely used in code and documentation; for example, the Arduino environment provides a function named millis() that returns the number of milliseconds since the program started.