litre

British  

/ ˈliːtə /

noun

1. one cubic decimetre

2. (formerly) the volume occupied by 1 kilogram of pure water at 4°C and 760 millimetres of mercury. This is equivalent to 1.000 028 cubic decimetres or about 1.76 pints

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Etymology

Origin of litre

C19: from French, from Medieval Latin litra, from Greek: a unit of weight

Example Sentences

"My milking herd's normal output dropped from 14,000 litres of milk per day to 9,000 within days of the outbreak because infected cows eat less and struggled to produce milk."

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Callan explains that he wears a gravity-fed backpack containing 15 litres of water, and his job is to sprinkle the ice with water droplets of different sizes.

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Prices paid to caterers for their oil can depend on how much is available for collection and its quality, but according to the industry, a restaurant could get about 30p a litre.

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The man said he was later given a half litre of bottled water by a nurse.

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From privately dug boreholes, they bring thousands of litres of water in tankers almost daily to the town.

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