Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of volume equal to one thousandth (10−3) of a liter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A French measure of capacity containing the thousandth part of a liter, equal to 0.06102 of a cubic inch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US spelling of
millilitre .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
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Examples
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It taste a thousand times daintier than mine! btw: do you know how much milliliter is a cup?
Cream Cheese-Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies | Baking Bites 2009
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Fifty picograms per milliliter is not anywhere close to offering a performance enhancement and a substance whose half life is 30+ hours would show higher traces for days before it dwindled to such a low level.
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(A milliliter is a bit less than a quarter-teaspoon.)
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(A milliliter is a bit less than a quarter-teaspoon.)
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Among these men, 14 percent had PSA levels at or below 4 nanograms per milliliter, which is normal or below normal.
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(A nanogram is one-billionth of a gram and a milliliter is a unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter.)
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All that for a measly $95 for 50 ml, a buck ninety for one milliliter, which is only slightly more than ink for my HP DeskJet at work, which goes for $1.84/ml and presumably doesn’t smell as good.
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Blood tests from all of the participants showed cell counts between 350 to 550 cells per cubic milliliter of blood.
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Perrigo Co., which makes 95% of the kids' acetaminophen medicines sold under private labels, says its products should be switched over to the single 160 milligrams per 5 milliliter concentration by the summer.
J&J, Others to Revamp Pain Drug Jonathan D. Rockoff 2011
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Petacchi had a TUE that allowed him to have levels of salbutamol of 1000 nanograms (a nanogram is a billionth of a gram) per milliliter of urine.
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