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A metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter
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centiliter
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also centilitre , 1801, from French centilitre ; see centi- + liter .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) (alternative spelling of centilitre English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Centiliter \Cen"ti*li`ter\, Centilitre \Cen"ti*li`tre\, n. [F. centilitre; centi (L. centum) + litre. See Liter .] The hundredth part of a liter; a measure of volume or capacity equal to a little more than six tenths (0.6102) of a cubic inch, or one third ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a metric unit of volume equal to one hundredth of a liter [syn: centilitre , cl ]
Usage examples of centiliter.
I believe that a centiliter of the essence costs about half a million credits on the open market You just got dosed by five times that.
The blood test, analyzed at speed because of the bang on my head, had revealed a level of 290 milligrams of alcohol per centiliter of blood, which, I had been assured, meant that I had drunk the equivalent of at least half a bottle of spirits during the preceding few hours.
Ran used at times, and it cost more per centiliter than I made in a month.
The bottle was a seventy-centiliter bottle and there were seventy centiliters of liquid inside.
This water was carried to the seed by a slow capillary process, a few centiliters each minute reaching the core.