milliliter
noun
mil·li·li·ter
ˈmi-lə-ˌlē-tər 
: a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₁₀₀₀ liter see Metric System Table
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License holders can ship up to 24 nine-liter (a nine-liter case is 12 750 milliliter bottles) cases of wine per year to each eligible Arkansas consumer.
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Seth Eli Barlow, Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
Cook the pasta according to the package directions until al dente, reserving 237 milliliters (1 cup) of pasta water before draining.
—Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
Data centers supporting these operations also consume vast amounts of water for cooling purposes, with each inference of 20–50 queries on a large language model using approximately 500 milliliters of water.
—Monica Sanders, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Wentworth wrote: For example, on July 14, 2015, the DC Department of Energy and the Environment found bacteria levels over 2,420 times the most probable number of colonies in 100 milliliters (MPN).
—ArsTechnica, 12 May 2025
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Seth Eli Barlow, Arkansas Online, 13 May 2025
Cook the pasta according to the package directions until al dente, reserving 237 milliliters (1 cup) of pasta water before draining.
—Francesca Giuliani Hoffman, CNN Money, 9 May 2025
Data centers supporting these operations also consume vast amounts of water for cooling purposes, with each inference of 20–50 queries on a large language model using approximately 500 milliliters of water.
—Monica Sanders, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Wentworth wrote: For example, on July 14, 2015, the DC Department of Energy and the Environment found bacteria levels over 2,420 times the most probable number of colonies in 100 milliliters (MPN).
—ArsTechnica, 12 May 2025
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“Milliliter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/milliliter. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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milliliter
noun
mil·li·li·ter
ˈmil-ə-ˌlēt-ər
: a measure of capacity equal to ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ liter see metric system
Medical Definition
milliliter
noun
mil·li·li·ter
variants
or chiefly British millilitre
: one thousandth of a liter
—abbreviation ml
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