litre

unit of volume accepted for use with the SI
Intangible unit_of_volume Q11582
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litre

Summary

litre is an unit of volume[1]. litre ranks in the top 3% of unit_of_volume entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (678 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • litre's image is recorded as CubeLitre.svg[3].
  • litre's instance of is recorded as unit of volume[4].
  • litre's instance of is recorded as SI-accepted non-SI unit[5].
  • litre's instance of is recorded as non-SI unit mentioned in and accepted with the SI[6].
  • litre's instance of is recorded as UCUM derived unit[7].
  • litre's measured physical quantity is recorded as volume[8].
  • litre's Commons category is recorded as Litre[9].
  • litre's said to be the same as is recorded as cubic decimetre[10].
  • litre's said to be the same as is recorded as Maß[11].
  • litre's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04lmb[12].
  • litre's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300379227[13].
  • litre's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[14].
  • litre's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • litre's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[16].
  • litre's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/litre[17].
  • litre's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C48505[18].
  • litre's Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 8059[19].
  • litre's different from is recorded as Litre[20].
  • litre's conversion to SI unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25517', 'amount': '+0.001'}[21].
  • litre's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q2175964', 'amount': '+1'}[22].
  • litre's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1022113', 'amount': '+1000'}[23].
  • litre's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q2637946', 'amount': '+0.1'}[24].
  • litre's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q2029519', 'amount': '+0.01'}[25].
  • litre's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00024266n[26].
  • litre's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0475211[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for litre include Liter of Light[28], an organization[29], founded in 2013[30].

Why It Matters

litre ranks in the top 3% of unit_of_volume entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (678 views/month).[2] litre has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] litre is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for litre include Liter of Light[28], an organization[29], founded in 2013[30].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Q124393962. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Q124393962. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Q124393962. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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