different between litre vs gigalitre

English

Alternative forms

• liter (American)

Etymology

From French litre, from Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”). Related to Latin libra. Doublet of rottol.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?li?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?li.t?/, [?li.??]
  • Homophone: leader
• Rhymes: -i?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: li?tre

Noun

litre (plural litres) (chiefly British spelling, Canadian spelling, Irish, South African, Australian / NZ spelling, BIPM spelling)

1. The metric unit of fluid measure, equal to one cubic decimetre. Symbols: l, L, ?

   You should be able to fill four cups with one litre of water.

2. (informal) A measure of volume equivalent to a litre.

Usage notes

• The litre is not an SI unit but is accepted for use with SI units. The official SI symbols are the capital roman "L" or lower-case roman "l". The upper-case "L" is often used in English-speaking countries to avoid confusion with the number "1". The script symbol ?, while not officially sanctioned, was sometimes used in non-technical contexts to prevent the lower-case roman l from being confused with 1, the number one.
• This, rather than liter, is the spelling adopted by both the International Bureau of Weights and Measures and the International Organization for Standardization in their English language texts. However the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, in accordance with the United States Government Printing Office Style Manual, has chosen to use liter.

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ???? (l??ar)

Translations

Further reading

• litre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• liter, relit, tiler, triel

Catalan

Etymology

From French litre.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?li.t??/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?li.t?e/

Noun

litre m (plural litres)

1. litre

Further reading

• “litre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “litre” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “litre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “litre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin litra, from Ancient Greek ????? (lítra, “a Sicilian coin, a measure of weight”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lit?/

Noun

litre m (plural litres)

1. litre

Related terms

• litron

Descendants

Further reading

• “litre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• relit

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l??it????/

Noun

litre f

1. (archaic) Alternative form of litreach: genitive singular of litir
2. (archaic) Alternative form of litreacha: nominative plural of litir

References

• "litre" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from French litre.

Noun

litre m (plural litres)

1. (Jersey) litre

English

Alternative forms

• (US) gigaliter

Etymology

giga- +? litre

Noun

gigalitre (plural gigalitres)

1. A unit of volume equivalent to 10⁹ litres (one billion [British billion] liters). Symbol: Gl

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• gigaliter