Definition: 1. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).
Use 'litre' in a sentence:
1. The distance between the upper and lower mark roughly corresponds to one litre of oil.
2. Since 2006, the regulations have required the use of 2.4 litre V8 engines, with power outputs falling around 20 percent.
3. Washing a mug under a running tap uses about a litre of water;
4. The system consists of the control unit housing the pumps and a 2 Litre dewar.
5. Historically, the cost of making Brazilian ethanol has been about 26 cents a litre.
6. He emptied his glass and ordered another half litre of wine.
7. A group of women wait by the road with empty 20-litre plastic canisters.
8. Farmers get 26 shillings a litre, more than twice what they were paid before the dairy opened its doors.
9. He lost half a litre of blood and was still in hospital three days later.
10. The separation of power machine and compressor gives a available way of improving calorific efficiency and performance per litre.
11. Plug-in cars, for example, could be fuelled with electricity at a price equivalent to 25 cents a litre of petrol.
12. Last month it cost 28 per cent more to buy a litre of petrol than a year earlier.
13. The capacity of this bottle is one litre.
14. Petrol is 19.22p a litre more expensive than a year ago, while diesel costs 20.91p more.
15. In addition, can use litre fall shade.
16. Calculate the average volume of water, in litre, in a beaker.
17. The car does ten km. to the litre.
18. He drank up a whole litre of beer.
19. Previously it was thought there were around 100, 000 microbial cells in every litre of seawater but scientists now think there could be one billion.
20. Normal levels are between 2.2 and 2.6 millimoles per litre.
21. A litre of teacan contain up to 9mg of fluoride, which in excess can cause skeletal fluorosis, reducing bone quality and causing pain and stiffening of the ligaments.
22. Prices started to fall from a high of 136.58p a litre on 8 August to 135.71p on Monday, down 0.87p.
23. How much does your car do to the litre?
24. As many as four litres of water are used to make a litre of the bottled stuff.
25. You is allowed six litre of duty free wine.
26. In January it was almost impossible to find a litre of petrol (though diesel was available).
27. Yesterday, I ate a whole litre of ice-cream.
28. Litre is used as a contents unit.
29. A 20-litre jerrycan of poor quality water has quadrupled in price.
30. A level of100mg per litre is considered enough to impair brain development in children.
31. It is sold to the public at eight cents a litre.
32. That means about one and a half litre minimum.
33. They will knock back 6.1 million litres of beer, roughly equivalent to one litre per person.
34. A car that goes eight kilometres to the litre.
35. Make a dilution of the substance by adding one litre of water.
36. However, many of the new buyers of SUVs in China are more interested in social status than miles per litre.
37. One litre of pure alcohol contains 1000 millilitres. There are 10 millilitres in every unit of alcohol.
38. Primary study on large scale culture of Catharanthus roseus cells in 70 litre bioreactor.
39. Oil product prices remain above the 80 cents per litre Chinese motorists pay at the pump.
40. That's the conclusion of a recently released study, which analysed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, revealing an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water.
41. It currently takes one litre of water to produce one calorie of food.
42. The company's latest newcomer is a 4 x 4 estate with a 2.2 litre petrol engine.
43. In the early 1990s, such batteries had an energy density of about 100 watt-hours per litre.
44. A litre of gas has less mass than a litre of water.
45. New Japanese cars averaged 13 km to the litre in 1981.
46. This translates into roughly an extra four cents a litre of petrol at the pump.
47. About 1 dessertspoonful of cooking salt in 1 litre of tap-water is suitable.
48. It's cheap there, well a litre of whisky was two pounds.
49. It takes about one litre of water to produce one calorie from food crops.
50. It costs £ 10.86 for one litre including carriage.
51. Litre is a metric denomination.
52. One tablet will purify a litre of water.
53. This tax would raise petrol prices by about 3.5p per litre.
54. Diesel will cost more, but petroleum-based diesel sells in America for 57 cents a litre before distribution costs and tax, so there should be room for profit.
55. Ethanol is corrosive and has less energy per litre than petrol and diesel.
56. He polished off a large steak, salad, broccoli swimming in thick sauce, and half a litre of wine.
