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Meanings of liter in English
A metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
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Nobody leaves half a liter of good vodka with the cap off.
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I ended up going like 10 hours with a half-liter of water.
3
The water is then sealed in half-liter plastic bags to avoid re-contamination.
4
Under the policy each liter of diesel must contain 15 percent biofuel.
5
The specimens, sealed in thousands of five-liter bottles, are of virtually everything.
6
My gaze fell on the liter of bottled water on the desk.
7
I bought a liter of it at a chemical recycling website on-line.
8
He had followed a liter of mezcal with five bottles of Corona.
9
Nodding, I raised my liter of bottled water like a baseball bat.
10
She looks around and sees a ten-liter plastic jerrican on the floor.
11
It contained only a half-liter bottle, wax-sealed, containing a dark reddish-brown syrup.
12
Half a liter of ballast sprayed out of the tank, drenching him.
13
Behind three pizzas and a liter of soda, the killer slipped in.
14
Each cylinder is a liter; that's one hell of a powerful engine.
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Note that micrograms per liter is the same thing as parts per billion.
16
A liter of water is still more expensive than a liter of fuel.
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