Mission

A mission literally means something that is sent, from the Latin word missum, "sent".\n* Thus we may refer to space exploration expeditions as "space missions",\n* or to a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory as a "diplomatic mission".\n*Mission, British Columbia city in Canada.\n* Christian missionss are movements or outposts of Christian proselytism.\n**Mission is often used to refer to the outposts established by Spanish friars in what are now the south-western states of the USA, and to the buildings that remain from those outposts; see California missions. The Mission District of San Francisco derives its name from such a Mission, the Mission San Francisco de Asis\n* The 1986 film The Mission has a Christian mission as its setting.\n* Analogously to the religious use, some businesses see and label their marketing practices as "missions". Other businesses may simply subscribe to mission statementss as credos.\n* In military parlance, "operationss" are sometimes termed "missions".\n* Mission is also the name of an ethnic group.\n----\n