millilitre
/mˈɪləlˌitɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.60 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A unit of measure of capacity, equal to one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: mL or ml.
British usage
Example Sentences
- "Holonyms: litre < kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre"
- "Meronyms: picolitre < nanolitre < microlitre"
- "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)."
- "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."
Etymology
From milli- + litre, from French millilitre.
Usage
- British usage