millilitre en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From milli- + litre, from French millilitre.
Meanings
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(UK) A unit of measure of capacity, equal to one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: mL or ml.
Holonyms: litre < kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre
Meronyms: picolitre < nanolitre < microlitre
One serve of carbohydrates is approximately equal to a slice of bread, a piece of fruit, third of a cup of cooked rice, half a cup of grains, cereals, starchy vegetables or cooked pasta, 200 grams of plain yoghurt, or 300 millilitres of milk.
2012, Lesley Campbell, Alan L. Rubin, Type 2 Diabetes For Dummies, Australian Edition, page 117:A smaller mammal such as a dog has a sperm concentration of 300 000 000 per millilitre in an ejaculate of 8 ml in volume. Thus, each ejaculate will contain only 2 400 000 000 (24 × 10⁸).
2012, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| millilitres | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| milliliter | US, alternative | lexicographic |
Translations (40)
bg милилитър (a unit of volume) · es mililitro (a unit of volume) · yo mìlílítà (a unit of volume) · et milliliiter (a unit of volume) · it millilitro (a unit of volume) · ca mil·lilitre (a unit of volume) · ia mililitro (a unit of volume) · ja ミリリットル (a unit of volume) · de Milliliter (a unit of volume) · bn মিলিলিটার (a unit of volume) · gl mililitro (a unit of volume) · sk mililiter (a unit of volume) · is millilítri (a unit of volume) · nb milliliter (a unit of volume) · my မီလီလီတာ (a unit of volume) · pl mililitr (a unit of volume) · cmn 毫升 (a unit of volume) · ru миллили́тр (a unit of volume) · nl milliliter (a unit of volume) · sw mililita (a unit of volume) · ro mililitru (a unit of volume) · ast milillitru (a unit of volume) · pt mililitro (a unit of volume) · km មីលីលីត្រ (a unit of volume) · el χιλιοστόλιτρο (a unit of volume) · te మిల్లీలీటరు (a unit of volume) · lt milili̇̀tras (a unit of volume) · eo mililitro (a unit of volume) · hu milliliter (a unit of volume) · fr millilitre (a unit of volume) · cs mililitr (a unit of volume) · tl mililitro (a unit of volume) · yi מיליליטער (a unit of volume) · da milliliter (a unit of volume) · fi millilitra (a unit of volume) · nn milliliter (a unit of volume) · ko 밀리리터 (a unit of volume) · th มิลลิลิตร (a unit of volume) · cmn 西西 (a unit of volume) · sv milliliter (a unit of volume)