milliliter
USMIL-i-lee-ter/ˈmɪlɪˌlitɚ/UKMIL-i-lee-tuh/ˈmɪlɪˌliːtə/
Pluralmilliliters
UK spellingmillilitre
- 1A unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter, written with the symbol mL or ml.
The recipe calls for 250 milliliters of milk and two eggs.
The lab counted the bacteria in each milliliter of the river water.
Note
Two symbols are in use, mL and ml, and both are correct, though the capital L is often preferred because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1 when it follows a number, as in 8 ml. The name simply joins milli-, "thousandth," to liter, and British spelling writes the word millilitre.
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Origin
Formed from the prefix milli- and liter.