Definitions for liters

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liters li·ter

Spelling: [lee-ter]

IPA: /ˈli tər/

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

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in liters (eilrst).

Definitions for liters

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 liters

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 liters

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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