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ml

ml is the alternative form of millilitre.

Meaning of millilitre

Noun

millilitre (plural millilitres)

  1. (UK) A unit of measure of capacity, equal to one thousandth of a litre. Symbol: mL or ml.
    • Holonyms: litre < kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre

Proper noun capitalized: ML

ML

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Markup Language.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of MetaLanguage (“the ML programming language”).
    • The Curry and Church approaches to typed lambda calculus correspond to two paradigms in programming. In the first of these a program may be written without typing at all. Then a compiler should check whether a type can be assigned to the program. This will be the case if the program is correct. A...1991 December 20, Henk P. Barendregt, “Lambda Calculi With Types”, in ftp.cs.ru.nl^([ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/CompMath.Found/HBK.ps]), retrieved 15 Jul 2012
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Medieval Latin.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Middle Latin.
  5. (Marxism, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Marxism-Leninism.
  6. (abbreviation, colloquial, Southeast Asia) Abbreviation of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
  7. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Meghalaya: a state of India.

Noun capitalized: ML

ML (countable and uncountable, plural MLs)

  1. (abbreviation, countable, initialism, surface chemistry) Initialism of monolayer.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of machine learning.
  3. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of mailing list.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of maximum likelihood.
  5. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of muzzleloader.
  6. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of munitions list, a category of controlled goods under the Wassenaar Arrangement.
  7. (Marxism, abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of Marxist-Leninist.
  8. (abbreviation, slang) Abbreviation of male lead.
  9. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of my love.

Forms of ml

pluralml
pluralMLs
plural (rare)mls

Phrases with ml

Questions about ml

What is ml the alternative form of?
Ml is the alternative form of millilitre.
What part of speech is ml?
Ml can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near ml in the dictionary

  1. MKV
  2. MKVs
  3. MKW
  4. Mkwaya
  5. MKWii
  6. ml
  7. MLA
  8. Mlabri
  9. Mladen
  10. Mladic
  11. Mladimir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ml (page history and authors); ML (page history and authors); millilitre (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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