LITER (liter)

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Irregular inflected form: liter   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does liter mean? 

• LITER (noun)
  The noun LITER has 1 sense:

1. 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)

  Familiarity information: LITER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

cubic decimeter; cubic decimetre; l; liter; litre

Hypernyms ("liter" is a kind of...):

metric capacity unit (a capacity unit defined in metric terms)

Meronyms (parts of "liter"):

deciliter; decilitre; dl (a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter)

Holonyms ("liter" is a part of...):

dal; decaliter; decalitre; dekaliter; dekalitre; dkl (a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters)

 Context examples 

Days times millimoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by grams (dose or weight).

(Day Times Millimole Per Liter Per Gram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Days times millimoles per liter, divided by grams.

(Day Times Millimole Per Liter Per Gram, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of mass concentration defined as the concentration of one microgram of a substance per unit volume of the mixture equal to one liter.

(Microgram per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

One microliter is equal to a millionth of a liter.

(Microliter, NCI Dictionary)

A concentration of 1/1,000,000 (one millionth) molecular weight per liter (mol/L).

(Micromolar, NCI Dictionary)

A unit of volume accepted for use with the SI and equal to one millionth of a liter (10E-6 liter).

(Microliter, NCI Thesaurus)

Days times millimoles per liter (area under the curve).

(Day Times Micromole per Milliliter, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Days times micromoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).

(Day Times Micromole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Days times micromoles per liter, divided by kilograms.

(Day Times Micromole Per Liter Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)

Days times micromoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by grams (dose or weight).

(Day Times Micromole Per Liter Per Gram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)