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A kilogram of water that forgot it was also a cube.
means A metric unit of volume equal to one cubic decimetre, used for measuring liquids like water, milk, or petrol.
from Coined in revolutionary France in the 1790s as part of the brand-new metric system, built from the older French word 'litron,' a pre-metric unit for measuring grain and dry goods. The litron itself traces back through Latin to the Greek 'litra,' a unit of weight. So the word didn't start with liquids at all — it was borrowed, repurposed, and standardized to fit the tidy new logic of grams, metres, and cubes.
- origin
- defined as one cubic decimetre
- mass link
- one litre of water weighs one kilogram
- spelling split
- liter in the US, litre everywhere else
- not SI base
- officially just a special name for cubic decimetre