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Liter vs Melchior - What's the difference?

liter | melchior |

As nouns the difference between liter and melchior

is that liter is one cubic decimeter while melchior is .

liter

English

Alternative forms

* litre (except US)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One cubic decimeter.

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    * (litre)

    Anagrams

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    melchior

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 18 liters, equivalent to 24 standard bottles.

    • Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • One of the Magi according to medieval Christian legend.
  • (rather rare) .
  • * 1991 , Wise Children , Chatto & Windus, ISBN 0701133546, page 16:
    • So twin boys, our fathers, were born in the USA. Melchior and Peregrine. What names, eh? What delusions of grandeur went into the naming of them? If you shorten them to 'Mel' and 'Perry', they've got a democratically twentieth-century and transatlantic ring to them.