Definitions for liter

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liter li·ter

Spelling: [lee-ter]

IPA: /ˈli tər/

Liter is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in liter (eilrt).

Definitions for liter

noun

1. a unit of capacity redefined in 1964 by a reduction of 28 parts in a million to be exactly equal to one cubic decimeter. It is equivalent to 1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts and is equal to the volume of one kilogram of distilled water at 4°C. Abbreviation: l.
2. light2 (def 36).

adjective

1. noting a commercial product that is low in calories or low in any substance considered undesirable, as compared with a product of the same type: used especially in labeling or advertising commercial products:
2. noting a version that is comparatively less extreme, profound, advanced, etc., than the typical version (often used postpositively):

Origin of liter

1800-10; French litre, back formation from litron an old measure of capacity, derivative (with -on noun suffix) of Medieval Latin litra Greek lítra pound

Examples for liter

The total in taxes and transport is fourteen and a half cents a liter.

The work paid well and was competed for: one-fifth liter of vodka, five cigarettes, 100 grams of sausage for each job.

Autocracy is just a Russian bad habit, like smoking three packs of cigarettes a day and drinking a liter of vodka.

They could neither of them stand any more when the liter was emptied.

One hundred kilograms of rowanberries produce only one liter and a half of distilled liquor.

The oldest Rolls-Royce in the Royal fleet is a 1950 Phantom IV, with a massive 5.76 liter engine.

The infusion for internal use is 30 grams to the liter of water.

There are long lines of cars stocking up on gas, to the point most gas stations imposed a 20 liter limit.

W'en a man's eyes 'fected by champagne, he's liter'ly no good.

For example, the weight of a liter of oxygen has been given as 1.4285 g.