milliliter
Americannoun
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A unit of liquid volume or capacity in the metric system equal to 0.001 liter.
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See Table at measurement
Etymology
Origin of milliliter
From the French word millilitre, dating back to 1800–10. See milli-, liter
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Example Sentences
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Detecting such a strong signal from just 1 milliliter of serum was unexpected.
From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026
One of its air samplers, in Parcel C — collected 8.16 times 10‐15 picocuries per milliliter of Plutonium-239 — twice the established action level — according to a Navy spokesperson.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
People with hepatitis B have 100 million to 10 billion infectious particles per milliliter of blood, says Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious disease physician at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025
The book reviews how from 1973 to 2011 sperm concentration dropped from 99 million per milliliter to 47 million per milliliter, with 15 million per milliliter being the threshold before a man is declared infertile.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2024
In routine artificial breeding, it is common to add extenders to semen so that one milliliter of diluted semen may contain only 10 million living sperm cells.
From Preservation of Bull Semen at Sub-Zero Temperatures by Friedman, M. E.
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