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liter

[ lee-ter ]

noun

  1. a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. : l


liter

/ ˈliːtə /

noun

  1. See litre
    the US spelling of litre


liter

/ tər /

  1. The basic unit of liquid volume or capacity in the metric system, equal to 1.06 quart or 2.12 pints.
  2. See Table at measurement
  3. The basic unit of dry volume or capacity in the metric system, equal to 0.90 quart or 1.82 pint.
  4. See Table at measurement


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Word History and Origins

Origin of liter1

1800–10; < French litre, back formation from litron an old measure of capacity, derivative (with -on noun suffix) of Medieval Latin litra < Greek lítra pound

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Example Sentences

The new yeast was able to produce over 100 grams of ethanol for every liter of treated corn stover, an efficiency comparable to the standard process using corn kernels to make the biofuel, the researchers report June 25 in Science Advances.

Like I always think of backpacks in terms of how many liters they can hold, because I can easily visualize what a Nalgene water bottle looks like, and I can visualize 40 or 60 water bottles fitting in a backpack.

He described his time alone in the mountains — with no flashlight and only a liter of water and a power bar in his backpack — as terrifying.

It takes one minute to bring a liter of water to boil at sea level, but the stove also provides fine heat adjustment so you won’t burn your bacon.

A single liter of dirty water carries the remains of viruses shed into toilets by everyone who shares a sewer system, offering a readout on the health of thousands, even millions, of people.

It was bottled in the 1980s, and he bought the half-liter bottle for ¥34,000, or about $5,470.

Gracie packed up her Wellington boots, long-sleeved shirts, and trousers, and flew to Caracas with a five-liter alembic still.

Autocracy is just a Russian bad habit, like smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and drinking a liter of vodka.

A six-liter bottle of her 1992 Screaming Eagle set a world record for the highest price ever paid for a single bottle of wine.

In addition, a one-liter Tetra Pak weighs less than a pound.

This material was thoroughly macerated and put into ten-liter bottles with ether.

Hence the number of grams of a given substance in a liter divided by its molecular weight represents its concentration.

This form of expressing concentrations is in many particulars preferable to the mole/liter form.

In such a solution, the concentration of silver-ion is reduced to 8E24 gram-ion per liter.

It contained only a half-liter bottle, wax-sealed, containing a dark reddish-brown syrup.

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