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Megalitre or megaliter (ML, Ml, or Mℓ), a unit of volume; Millilitre or milliliter (mL, ml, or mℓ), a unit of volume; Millilambert (mL), a non-SI unit of luminance; Richter magnitude scale (M L), used to measure earthquakes; Megalangmuir (ML), a unit of exposure of a surface to a given chemical species (convention is 1 ML=monolayer=1 Langmuir)
Some SI units of volume to scale and approximate corresponding mass of water. A litre is a cubic decimetre, which is the volume of a cube 10 centimetres × 10 centimetres × 10 centimetres (1 L ≡ 1 dm 3 ≡ 1000 cm 3).
SI base units Name Symbol Measure Post-2019 formal definition [1] Historical origin / justification Dimension symbol; second: s time "The second, symbol s, is the SI unit of time.
For serving sizes on nutrition labels in the US, regulation 21 CFR §101.9(b) requires the use of "common household measures", and 21 CFR §101.9(b)(5)(viii) defines a "common household" fluid ounce as exactly 30 milliliters. This applies to the serving size but not the package size; package sizes use the US customary fluid ounce.
glass-tumbler; breakfast-cup; tea-cup; wine-glass; table-spoon; dessert-spoon; tea-spoon; black-jack; demijohn (dame-jeanne); goblet; pitcher; gyllot (about equal to 1/2 gill); noggin (1/4 pint) [8]
Pharmacists have since moved to metric measurements, with a drop being rounded to exactly 0.05 mL (50 μL, that is, 20 drops per milliliter). In hospitals, intravenous tubing is used to deliver medication in drops of various sizes ranging from 10 drops/mL to 60 drops/mL.
Some SI units of volume to scale and approximate corresponding mass of water. A cubic centimetre (or cubic centimeter in US English) (SI unit symbol: cm 3; non-SI abbreviations: cc and ccm) is a commonly used unit of volume that corresponds to the volume of a cube that measures 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm.
Many traditional wine bottle sizes are named for Biblical kings and historical figures. [5] The chart below [6] lists the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is 0.75 litres (0.20 US gal; 0.16 imp gal) (six 125 mL servings).