ml

M3L1

A form of markup language — A computer language using markup that tells the computer some traits of the content that is described by the markup tags.

CommonScrabble 4

Meanings

ml1

nounml (plural ml or (rare) mls)

plural rare mls

  1. symbolmetrologySymbol for millilitre, an SI unit of fluid measure equal to 10⁻³ litres.

    A roadside breathalyser found she had 50 mgs alcohol in 100 mls of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms.

    2015 July 24, Euan McLelland, “Mother-of-six battling breast cancer gets three-year drink-drive ban for PUSHING a car to a safe spot after it ran out of petrol”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2015
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    For the pastry (pate brisée): […] 45 mls water […] Redcurrant and Dijon mustard sauce […] 500 mls lamb or beef stock (the ready made kind is perfect) […] Brown a teaspoon of flour in the oil on the hob and then pour in 250 mls of stock. […] Lemon Mascarpone cream […] 150 mls single cream

    2001 August 11, Jay Rayner, “The cook, the chef, the critic...”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2013

    In addition, 0.5 ml of 1% lidocaine HCl was injected subcutaneously in the postauricular area for local anesthesia.

    2015 August 27, “Intracochlear Bleeding Enhances Cochlear Fibrosis and Ossification: An Animal Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

ML2

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Markup Language.
  2. abbreviationinitialismcomputer languagesInitialism of MetaLanguage (“the ML programming language”).
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    The Curry and Church approaches to typed lambda calculus correspond to two paradigms in programming. In the first of these a program may be written without typing at all. Then a compiler should check whether a type can be assigned to the program. This will be the case if the program is correct. A well-known example of such a language is ML, see Milner (1984). The style of typing is called 'implicit typing'. The other paradigm in programming is called 'explicit typing' and corresponds to the Church version of typed lambda calculi. Here a program should be written together with its type. For these languages type-checking is usually easier, since no types have to be constructed. Examples of such languages are ALGOL 68 and PASCAL. Some authors designate the Curry systems as 'lambda calculi with type assignment and the Church systems as 'systems of typed lambda calculus'.

    1991 December 20, Henk P. Barendregt, “Lambda Calculi With Types”, in ftp.cs.ru.nl^([ftp://ftp.cs.ru.nl/pub/CompMath.Found/HBK.ps]), retrieved 15 Jul 2012
  3. abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of Medieval Latin.
  4. abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of Middle Latin.
  5. MarxismabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Marxism-Leninism.
  6. abbreviationcolloquialSoutheast AsiaAbbreviation of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
  7. abbreviationAbbreviation of Meghalaya: a state of India.
nounML (countable and uncountable, plural MLs)

plural MLs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismsurface chemistryInitialism of monolayer.
  2. abbreviationinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of machine learning.
  3. abbreviationcountableinitialismcomputingInitialism of mailing list.
  4. abbreviationinitialismuncountablesciencesInitialism of maximum likelihood.
  5. abbreviationcountableinitialismgovernmentInitialism of muzzleloader.
  6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of munitions list, a category of controlled goods under the Wassenaar Arrangement.
  7. MarxismabbreviationcountableinitialismInitialism of Marxist-Leninist.
  8. abbreviationcountableslanguncountableanimeAbbreviation of male lead.
  9. InternetabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of my love.

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter

Broader
metric capacity unit

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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