millilitre

See also: mil·lilitre

English

Alternative forms

• (US) milliliter

Etymology

From milli- +‎ litre, from French millilitre.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

millilitre (plural millilitres)

1. (British spelling) A unit of measure of capacity, being one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: 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

• Asturian: milillitru m
• Bengali: মিলিলিটার (bn) (mililiṭar)
• Bulgarian: милилитър (bg) m (mililitǎr)
• Burmese: မီလီလီတာ (mililita)
• Catalan: mil·lilitre m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毫升 (zh) (háoshēng)

• Czech: mililitr (cs) m
• Danish: milliliter c
• Dutch: milliliter (nl)
• Estonian: milliliiter
• Finnish: millilitra (fi)
• French: millilitre (fr) m
• Galician: mililitro (gl) m
• German: Milliliter (de) m
• Greek: χιλιοστόλιτρο (el) n (chiliostólitro)
• Hungarian: milliliter (hu)
• Icelandic: millilítri m
• Interlingua: mililitro
• Italian: millilitro (it) m
• Japanese: ミリリットル (ja) (miririttoru)
• Khmer: មីលីលីត្រ (miiliiliit)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: milliliter m

  Nynorsk: milliliter m

• Polish: mililitr (pl) m
• Portuguese: mililitro (pt) m
• Romanian: mililitru (ro) m
• Russian: миллили́тр (ru) m (millilítr)
• Slovak: mililiter m
• Spanish: mililitro (es) m
• Swahili: mililita
• Swedish: milliliter (sv) c
• Tagalog: mililitro
• Telugu: మిల్లీలీటరు (millīlīṭaru)
• Thai: มิลลิลิตร (min-lí-lít)
• Yiddish: מיליליטער m (mililiter)
• Yoruba: mìlílítà

Anagrams

• milliliter

French

Etymology

From milli- +‎ litre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.li.litʁ/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

millilitre m (plural millilitres)

1. millilitre, milliliter (0.001 litre)

Further reading

• “millilitre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.