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The litre or liter is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre, 1000 cubic centimetres or 0.001 cubic metres. A cubic decimetre occupies a volume of 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm and is thus
One-litre beer mugs (German: Maßkrüge) at the Oktoberfest in Germany
Shot glasses with centilitre fill line graduations. "ARC" is the maker's (Arc International) certification of accuracy.
The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI, is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement. It is the only system o
Litre
…Late Medieval Latin, and which equalled approximately 0.82 litres. The litre was also used in several subsequent versions of the metric system but is not an SI unit; the SI unit of volume is the cubic metre (m3). The spelling used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures is "litre", a spelling which is…
Silicon sphere for the Avogadro project used for measuring the Avogadro constant to a relative standard uncertainty of 2×10−8 or less, held by Achim Leistner
Stone marking the Austro-Hungarian/Italian border at Pontebba displaying myriametres, a unit of 10 km used in Central Europe in the 19th century (but since deprecated)
Closeup of the National Prototype Metre, serial number 27, allocated to the United States