Meaning & use
kiloliter
A unit of volume equal to 1,000 liters, used mainly in the metric system.
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The underground storage tank has a capacity of about ten kiloliters.
The factory reported using several kiloliters of water each day in production.
A note on using this word
Kiloliter is rarely used in everyday speech; cubic meters, which represent the same volume, are more common in most metric countries.
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