Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metric unit of volume equal to approximately 1.056 liquid quarts, 0.908 dry quart, or 0.264 gallon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The unit of capacity in the metric system, equal to 0.88036 imperial quart, or 1.056 United States quarts; the volume of one kilogram of water at its maximum density.
- noun A Middle English form of
litter .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US spelling of
litre : Onecubic decimeter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A half liter is about all two people can support these days, especially in restaurants (many have to drive), so that would stop leaving a fourth to a third of the bottle undrunk on the table.
Tony Soter sheds some weight [carbon footprint] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010
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The price per liter is set by the government and changes on a monthly basis (always upward, from my experience).
The View From Mexico City - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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At the average world price of bottled water of US$0. 44 per liter, that is US$7. 9 billion or enough money to pay off the proposed water expenditures in less than ten years.
This means war 2008
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The U.S. government sets a limit for drinking water at 10 micrograms of arsenic per liter, which is exceeded in the water consumed by 13 million Americans who mostly live in rural areas that rely on wells to bring up ground water, the researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Arsenic has firm link to diabetes in U.S. study « Isegoria 2008
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Human milk generally provides 25 IU of vitamin D per liter, which is not enough for an infant if it is the sole source of vitamin D.
Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010
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The test showed a blood mercury level of 72 micrograms per liter, which is nearly 14 times higher than the New York State reporting level.
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At the average world price of bottled water of US$0. 44 per liter, that is US$7. 9 billion or enough money to pay off the proposed water expenditures in less than ten years.
This means war 2008
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And after all a liter is a little bigger than a quart, so it is not that hard to convert.
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Diesel here is currently running 0.93 euros/liter, which is about $4.70/gal.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » GM’s Design Problems in a Nutshell 2009
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Wells in Mauritius have high nitrate levels reaching 50 micrograms per liter, which is up to the World Health Organization-defined safety limits.
bilby commented on the word liter
See litre.
July 27, 2008