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the smallest unit that still expects you to take it seriously
means A metric unit of volume equal to one-thousandth of a liter, roughly the size of a single fat raindrop.
from A French coinage from the metric system born in the late 18th century, stitching together Latin 'mille' (thousand) as the shrinking prefix 'milli-' and 'liter,' itself from the older French 'litron' — a measure traced back through Medieval Latin to Greek 'litra,' a unit of weight. So the name literally announces itself as one-thousandth of a liter, no drama, just division.
- exact cube
- one cubic centimeter, no rounding needed
- water trick
- one milliliter of water weighs one gram
- drop math
- about twenty medical drops fill a single milliliter
- old name
- once called the cubic centimeter in medicine
- tiny giant
- vaccine doses often span just half a milliliter
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metric system unit — defined as one-thousandth of a liter, adopted internationally in 1960