gigaliters
Massive volume units
Gigaliters is the plural of gigaliter, a unit of volume equal to one billion liters.
The measurement appears in discussions of large-scale water resources—reservoirs, aquifers, agricultural irrigation: The dam holds approximately 250 gigaliters.
Also spelled gigalitres in British English.
Units of 100 liters
- acre-feetVolume over land area
- volumeAmount of space filled
- metricStandard of measurement
- quantifyExpress numerically
scale · unit · conversion · calculation · estimate · capacity · magnitude
Large water storage basin
- aquiferGroundwater-bearing geological formation
- damWater-holding barrier
- tankLarge storage vessel
- basinConcave water receptacle
lake · containment · impoundment · catchment · capacity · holding · retention · stockpile
Extremely large in scale
- vastExtremely great in size
- immenseExtremely large in scope
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
- colossalExtremely large in scale
tremendous · staggering · astronomical · incomprehensible · mind-boggling
hectoliters
Units of 100 liters
quantify · scale · unit · conversion · calculation · estimate · capacity · magnitude
reservoir
Large water storage basin
basin · lake · containment · impoundment · catchment · capacity · holding · retention · stockpile · reserve
enormous
Extremely large in scale
colossal · tremendous · staggering · astronomical · incomprehensible · mind-boggling
gigalitersmicroliters
Millionths of a liter
nanoliters · milliliters · drops · teaspoons · thimblefuls
liter, liters, litre, litres, gigalitres, milliliter, milliliters, millilitre, millilitres