Synonyms for liter
ˈli tərliter

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1. liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetrenoun

   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:
   litre, lambert, fifty, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre, l

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1. • Metric Capacity Unit

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1. List of paraphrases for "liter":

   litre, quart

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1. Stanley Young:

   That investigation looked at two-liter four-cylinder engines, now we're going to start looking at six-cylinder, three-liter diesel engines.

2. Halvor Molland:

   Even if we have a fire drill and we use diesel to set a small fire we have to calculate the amounts, these are chemical reactions so we know that if you set fire to one liter of diesel you know how much carbon will come out.

3. Richard Chang:

   We did what we call a cut-down : We opened up a big artery in the shoulder area and surgically tied in a graft-conduit, that allowed me to put in the 5-liter pump into the shoulder area through a graft, and pull the other one out from the groin. That ultimately I think is like playing chess — you got ta plan for the next move.

4. Steve Hamilton:

   If you just have a liter (of water) down in the bottom of a boat and put it on a trailer and travel over land to a new river system, you could be injecting potentially hundreds or even thousands of microscopic larvae into a new water body.

5. German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt:

   We have been informed that also in Europe, vehicles with 1.6 and 2.0 liter diesel engines are affected by the manipulations that are being talked about.