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Definition: Litre |
LitreNoun1. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "litre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1865. (references) |
"Litre" is a common misspelling or typo for: later, lire, liter, lithe, litter. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The litre (US liter) (symbol l or L) is a metric unit of volume. The symbol L was introduced in 1979 to avoid confusion with 1 and I. The litre is not an SI unit, but is "accepted for use with the International System" [2].
It is equal to:
There are 1,000 litres in a cubic metre. See 1 E-3 m³ for a comparison of volumes.
- 0.001 cubic metres,
- the volume of a cube of side 10 centimetres
- 1 cubic decimetre
A kilogram of pure water at a temperature of 4 °Celsius and standard atmospheric pressure occupies approximately 1 litre of space.
In the past, this was used to define the kilogram, but not anymore, partially because the volume depends ever-so-slightly on the pressure, and pressure units include mass as a factor, introducing a circular dependency in the definition of the kilogram.
The litre is subdivided into smaller units by the application of SI prefixes, making 1 litre equivalent to:
Because the symbol l (lowercase L) can be confused with the digit 1, it is sometimes written in a lowercase script form. The Unicode glyph SCRIPT SMALL L (U+2113) (ℓ) can be used for this purpose.
- 1,000 millilitres (ml); 1,000 cubic centimetres
- 100 centilitres (cl)
- 1 cubic decimetre
History
In 1793 the litre was introduced in France as one of the new "Republican Measures", and defined as one cubic decimetre. Its name derived from an older French unit, the litron, whose name came from Greek via Latin.In 1901, at the 3rd CGPM conference, the litre was redefined as the space occupied by 1 kg of pure water at the temperature of its maximum density (approx. 4 °C) under a pressure of 1 atm. This was supposed to be 1 dm3, but it was later discovered that the original measurement was off, at 1.000 028 dm3.
In 1964, at the 12th CGPM conference, the original definition of the litre was restored. It was recommended that the unit be used for commercial purposes but not for high-precision scientific work.
External Links
- [1] Conversion Calculator for Units of VOLUME
- [2] UK National Physical Laboratory's "Internationally Recognised non SI Units" page
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Litre."
Synonyms: LitreSynonyms: cubic decimeter (n), cubic decimetre (n), l (n), liter (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Litre |
| Specialty definitions using "litre": copper soup ♦ dry extract ♦ egg liqueur / advocaat / avocat / Advokat ♦ number 1 etch, number one etch ♦ osmolarity ♦ Salier etch, semi-dry, semi-sweet ♦ tartrate index ♦ wine-based cocktail. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Litre" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (liter, litre, quart), Occitan (litre), Turkish (liter, litre). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Litre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Litre" is used about 508 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 508 | 11,908 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "litre": half a litre. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "litre": litre-carton, litre-sized. | |
Ending with "litre": four-litre, three-litre, two-litre. | |
Containing "litre": half-a-litre of milk. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
litre | 36 | 3 austin litre | 3 |
conversion gallon litre | 17 | converter gallon litre | 3 |
gallon litre | 12 | conversion litre quart | 2 |
conversion litre | 12 | litre measurement | 2 |
kazaa litre | 11 | 500 66 7 galaxy litre | 2 |
litre ounce | 6 | litre quart | 2 |
in litre many ounce | 5 | 4.3 litre | 2 |
2.7 chrysler litre | 5 | conversion cubic inch litre | 2 |
conversion litre ounce | 4 | gallon litre us | 2 |
convert gallon litre | 3 | 2.3 engine ford litre | 2 |
2.3 ford litre | 3 | cup in litre many | 2 |
2 bottle litre rocket | 3 | in litre ounce | 2 |
5.7 hemi litre | 3 | 1 litre | 2 |
7 galaxy litre | 3 | 2.4 cam litre twin | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "litre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | liter (liter). (various references) | |
Albanian | litër (liter), njëlitërsh (liter). (various references) | |
Arabic | لتر وحدة قياس السوائل (liter). (various references) | |
Basque | litro. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | литър (liter). (various references) | |
Chinese | 公升 (liter, LTR). (various references) | |
Czech | litr (liter). (various references) | |
Danish | liter (liter). (various references) | |
Dutch | liter (liter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | litro (liter). (various references) | |
Faeroese | litur (colour, dye, liter, paint). (various references) | |
Finnish | litra (liter, litre liter). (various references) | |
French | litre (liter). (various references) | |
Frisian | mingel (liter). (various references) | |
German | Liter (liter, litres). (various references) | |
Greek | λίτρο (liter, pound). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ליטר (liter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | liter (lit, liter). (various references) | |
Indonesian | liter. (various references) | |
Irish | lítear (liter). (various references) | |
Italian | litro (liter). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | リチウ 爆弾 (car with 1000cc engine, lip, lip cream, lip service, lipreading, lipstick, literacy, literal, literary, literature, lithium bomb, lithograph, Lithuania, litmus, redisplay, reduce, rich, ridge, ripple, rocking motion, small-scale finance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | リットル . (various references) | |
Korean | 리터 (liter, LTR). (various references) | |
Manx | leetyr. (various references) | |
Norwegian | liter (liter). (various references) | |
Occitan | litre. (various references) | |
Papiamen | litro (liter), liter (liter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | itrelay.(various references) | |
Polish | litr (liter). (various references) | |
Portuguese | litro (liter). (various references) | |
Romanian | litru (liter). (various references) | |
Russian | литр (liter, liters). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | litar (dog's collar, liter). (various references) | |
Spanish | litro (liter). (various references) | |
Swedish | liter (liter). (various references) | |
Turkish | litre (liter), lítre (liter). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | літр (liter). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lít (liter). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "litre": litres. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: liter, relit, tiler. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-r-t" | |
-1 letter: lier, lire, lite, riel, rile, rite, tier, tile, tire, tirl. | |
-2 letters: ire, lei, let, lie, lit, rei, ret, tel, tie, til. | |
-3 letters: el, er, et, it, li, re, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-r-t" | |
+1 letter: filter, jilter, kilter, kirtle, lifter, linter, lister, liters, lither, litres, litter, loiter, milter, regilt, relict, relist, retail, retial, retile, riblet, rillet, rutile, tailer, tilers, tiller, tilter, tirled, toiler, trifle, triple. | |
+2 letters: article, atelier, blister, blither, bristle, brittle, circlet, dilater, diluter, driblet, estriol, fertile, filbert, filters, firelit, flirted, flirter, flitter, flutier, flytier, gilbert, glister, glitter, gristle, inertly, irately, jilters, joltier, kilters, kirtled, kirtles, kittler, klister, lathier, latrine, leister, liberty, librate, lifters, lighter, limiter, linters, lintier, listers, literal, litters, littery, littler, loftier, loiters, lustier, luthier, maltier, marlite, milters, miltier, motlier, nitrile, outlier, overlit, perlite, philter, philtre, plaiter, platier, poitrel, politer, quilter, ratlike, ratline, realist, reality, rebuilt, recital, redtail, reliant, relicts, relight, relists, reptile, resplit, retails, reticle, retiled, retiles, retinal, retinol, retitle, retrial, riblets, rillets, ringlet, ripplet, rivulet, ruliest, rutiles, saltier, saltire, siltier, slatier, slither, slitter, sterile, stifler, stiller, tailers, talkier, tallier, tearily, tendril, tertial, thirled, tickler, tiddler, tiercel, tillers, tilters, timbrel, tingler, tinkler, tippler, tiredly, toilers, tortile, trailed, trailer, trefoil, trellis, trenail, triable, trickle, trifled, trifler, trifles, trilled, triller, trindle, triolet, tripled, triples, triplet, triplex, tritely, twirled, twirler, uralite, utricle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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