megaliters

Huge water measurements

Megaliters is the plural of megaliter, a metric unit of volume equal to one million liters.

This measurement is typically used for large-scale water management, such as reservoir capacity, municipal water supplies, or agricultural irrigation.

The dam holds approximately 500 megaliters when full.

Outside the United States, the spelling is megalitres.

storage

tank

Large storage vessel

  • cisternWater storage chamber
  • damWater-holding barrier
  • basinConcave water receptacle

silo · container · vessel · pool · sump · impoundment · tanker · vat

scale

enormous

Extremely large in scale

  • vastExtremely great in size
  • immenseExtremely large in scope
  • massiveExtremely large and heavy

large-scale · bulk · wholesale · municipal · regional · agricultural · commercial

Opposites
volume scale

megalitersmicroliters

Millionths of a liter

nanoliters · milliliters · drops · teaspoons · tablespoons

Family

liter, liters, milliliter, milliliters, centiliter, centiliters, deciliter, deciliters, kiloliter

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