millilitre

nounB1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: millilitres

A millilitre is a thousandth of a litre. Five millilitres, per millilitre, a hundred millilitres.

It is exactly a cubic centimetre, which is why medicine and cooking can use either. A teaspoon is five millilitres by definition in a kitchen, which the actual spoons in your drawer are not.

Definitions of millilitre

1nounmillilitreA thousandth of a litre.B1
“Give the child five millilitres of the medicine twice a day.”

millilitre is a unit.

Also accepted in games: milliliter

Where it comes from

French millilitre is milli-, a thousandth, plus litre.

French
millilitre
English, today
millilitre

From milli- + litre, from French millilitre.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Numbers & Measurement

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millilitre in the wild

One cubic centimetre corresponds to a volume of one millilitre.
Cubic centimetre
Conversions 1 millilitre = 1 cm3 1 litre = 1000 cm3 1 cubic inch = 16.38706 cm3.
Cubic centimetre
For example, it can be given in RNA copies per millilitre of blood plasma.
Viral load
Autoignition temperatures of liquid chemicals are typically measured using a 500-millilitre flask placed in a temperature-controlled oven in accordance with the procedure described in ASTM E659.
Autoignition temperature
Unlike the colon (or large bowel), which is rich with bacteria, the small intestine usually has fewer than 100,000 organisms per millilitre.
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

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