cubic decimeter

Questions about cubic decimeter

What does cubic decimeter mean?

cubic decimeter means "a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)".

What is another word for cubic decimeter?

Close synonyms include liter, litre, l, cubic decimetre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cubic decimeter a common word?

cubic decimeter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.