# milliliter

Pronunciation: US say "MIL-i-lee-ter" /ˈmɪlɪˌlitɚ/; UK say "MIL-i-lee-tuh" /ˈmɪlɪˌliːtə/

## Noun

1. A unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter, written with the symbol mL or ml.
   - Simple: A small unit for measuring how much a container holds. A liter has 1,000 of them.
   - _The recipe calls for 250 milliliters of milk and two eggs._
   - _The lab counted the bacteria in each milliliter of the river water._

## Origin

Formed from the prefix milli- and liter.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/milliliter (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).