half-liter

[haf-lee-ter, hahf-]

noun

a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.

Origin of half-liter

First recorded in 1920–25

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Examples from the Web for half-liter

Contemporary Examples of half-liter

It was bottled in the 1980s, and he bought the half-liter bottle for ¥34,000, or about $5,470.
China Is Brewing Wine From Tiger Bones
Brendon Hong
July 22, 2014

Historical Examples of half-liter

It contained only a half-liter bottle, wax-sealed, containing a dark reddish-brown syrup.
Hunter Patrol
Henry Beam Piper and John J. McGuire