millilitre
See also: mil·lilitre
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From milli- + litre, from French millilitre.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
millilitre (plural millilitres)
- (British spelling) A unit of measure of capacity, equal to one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: mL or ml.
- 2012, Tim Glover, Mating Males: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mammalian Reproduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 79:
- 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, Lesley Campbell, Alan L. Rubin, Type 2 Diabetes For Dummies, Australian Edition[1], page 117:
- 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.
Translations
a unit of volume
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.li.litʁ/
Audio: (file) Audio (Paris): (file)
Noun
millilitre m (plural millilitres)
- millilitre, milliliter (0.001 litre)
Further reading
- “millilitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.