hectoliter

Large volume measure

A hectoliter is a metric unit of volume equal to 100 liters, or about 26.4 U.S. gallons.

The unit appears mainly in commercial contexts—wine production, beer brewing, and agricultural commodities: The winery produced 500 hectoliters this season.

Also spelled hectolitre in British English.

measurement

decaliter

Ten-liter measure

barrel · bushel · hogshead · firkin · conversion · volume · capacity · unit · magnitude · quantity

storage

tank

Large storage vessel

cistern · silo · drum · vessel · bin · capacity · warehouse · bulk · industrial · holding

brewing

beer

Fermented grain drink

wort · mash · vat · fermenter · barrel · cask · batch · yeast · lager · ale

agriculture

grain

Cereal plant's harvest unit

  • harvestGathering mature crops
  • yieldProduce or relinquish
  • cropCultivated agricultural plants

vineyard · orchard · irrigation · bulk · storage · silo · granary · measurement · quota · production

trade

commodity

Fungible traded good

tariff · shipment · wholesale · bulk · pricing · allocation · distribution · inventory · consignment

Categories
Opposites
metric scale magnitude

hectolitermicroliter

One-millionth liter unit

nanoliter · milliliter · centiliter · deciliter · kiloliter

Family

liter, liters, litre, milliliter, deciliter, centiliter, kiloliter, hectogram

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G