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millilitre

British  
/ ˈmɪlɪˌliːtə /

noun

  1.  ml.  one thousandth of a litre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Bekki saw a "cheap deal" for half a millilitre of lip filler for £45 from a "new girl" in her area.

From BBC Mar. 23, 2025

In RoboChem, a robotic needle carefully collects starting materials and mixes these together in small volumes of just over half a millilitre.

From Science Daily Jan. 25, 2024

The water from Lake Whillans teemed with 130,000 microbial cells per millilitre — a population 10–100 times bigger than some researchers expected2.

From Nature Dec. 11, 2018

Those who favoured boxer shorts had on average 64.7m sperm per millilitre and 168m sperm per ejaculate.

From The Guardian Aug. 8, 2018

In 1992 a meta-analysis of 61 papers, published in the British Medical Journal, suggested they had fallen by half in the preceding half-century, from 113m per millilitre of semen to 66m.

From Economist Dec. 6, 2012

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