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LITER
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Irregular inflected form: liter
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
cubic decimeter; cubic decimetre; l; liter; litre
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("liter" is a kind of...):
metric capacity unit (a capacity unit defined in metric terms)
Meronyms (parts of "liter"):
deciliter; decilitre; dl (a metric unit of volume equal to one tenth of a liter)
Holonyms ("liter" is a part of...):
dal; decaliter; decalitre; dekaliter; dekalitre; dkl (a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters)
Context examples:
Days times micromoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by kilograms (weight).
(Day Times Micromole Per Liter Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Days times micromoles per liter, divided by kilograms per meter squared.
(Day Times Micromole per Liter per Kilogram per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
Days times micromoles per liter, divided by meters squared.
(Day Times Micromole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
A unit of concentration (molarity unit) equal to one one-millionth of a mole (10E-6 mole) of solute per one liter of solution.
(Micromole per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)
A concentration unit equal to one micromole of solute in one liter of solution per unit of time equal to one second.
(Micromole Per Liter Per Second, NCI Thesaurus)
Minutes times micromoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by kilograms (weight).
(Minute Times Micromole Per Liter Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Minutes times micromoles per liter, divided by kilograms.
(Minute Times Micromole Per Liter Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)
Minutes times micromoles per liter, divided by kilograms per meter squared.
(Minute Times Micromole per Liter per Kilogram per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
Minutes times micromoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by kilograms per meter squared (body mass index).
(Minute Times Micromole per Liter per Kilogram per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Minutes times micromoles per liter, divided by meters squared.
(Minute Times Micromole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus)
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