Hypertext Webster Gateway: "liter"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Liter \Li"ter\, Litre \Li"tre\, n. [F. litre, Gr. ? a silver
coin.]
A measure of capacity in the metric system, being a cubic
decimeter, equal to 61.022 cubic inches, or 2.113 American
pints, or 1.76 English pints.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

liter
n : a metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram
of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of
mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints) [syn: {litre}, {l},
{cubic decimeter}, {cubic decimetre}]


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