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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liter
noun
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▪ The result is that the liter pop bottle you tossed out six months ago may be on your back today.
▪ They had a single liter of vodka left, a treasured object from the way they fondled it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liter

Liter \Li"ter\, Litre \Li"tre\ (l[=e]"t[~e]r; 277), n. [F. litre, Gr. li`tra a silver coin.] A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic decimeter, equal to 6

  1. 022 cubic inches, or

  2. 113 American pints, or 1.76 English pints.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liter

1797, from French litre (1793), from litron, obsolete French measure of capacity for grain, from Medieval Latin litra, from Greek litra "pound," apparently from the same Sicilian Italic source as Latin libra.

Wiktionary
liter

n. (alternative spelling of litre from=US dot=: English) One cubic decimeter.

WordNet
liter

n. 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) [syn: litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre]

Wikipedia
Litér

Litér is a village in Veszprém county, Hungary.

Usage examples of "liter".

The FDA permits so much aflatoxin in food that the peanut butter in your sandwich can be seventy-five times more hazardous than a liter of contaminated Silicon Valley water, the amount you would drink in a day if they would only let you.

Slices of salami, hard cheese, two fat tomatoes, fresh bread, a bottle of light white wine, some fetta, eggs for boiling, and a liter of crystal-clear bottled water.

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Doug Weller had killed a liter of mezcal in the silo, waiting for Aggie researchers to doctor the packets of grain for experimental animals at the Sonora breeding farm.

L-N5 iminoethyl ornithine, and three months later a total of twenty liters of hexamethylphosphamide.

Offenhouse had arranged for over two thousand liters of peptone to be shipped to India in nearly two hundred large metal drums.

The gypsy filled their canteens and brought them each a liter of red wine with the corks half pulled and a saucisson which they stowed in their haversacks.

The coltish but attractive teenager, having gulped the last syrupy bits of a full half liter of cherry sloosh, came in.

Martin will carry a liter of sodium hypochlorite in case of a spill and I will carry a cylinder of chlorine dioxide if we need to fumigate.

In ER they had shrink-wrapped his brain down to three-quarters its size by running a half liter of concentrated mannitol through it.

Signor Mantissa waylaid a waitress, who set down four liters of beer on the table.

We had all been given supplementary rations of vodka, a liter each, before we left, but Porta, in his usual manner, had ended up with three times more than anyone else.

Then, reaching for the stopcock at the base of the liter bag of saline, she turned it clockwise as far as it would go.

After the war, Iraq admitted to a United Nations inspection team that it had produced a staggering nineteen thousand liters of concentrated botulinum toxin--three times more than the amount needed to kill everyone on Earth.

Mackenzie quotes a case from Trousseau, in which an individual afflicted with diabetes insipidus passed 32 liters of urine daily and drank enormous quantities of water.