mahuühik

Mahuühik is an Estonian term that denotes a unit of volume or capacity. It refers to any measure used to express how much space a substance occupies or how much a container can hold.

In practice, mahuühik covers specific volume units such as liter (liiter), milliliiter (milliliiter), and cubic meter (kuupmeeter). In everyday use, liters are common for liquids, while cubic meters are used for larger quantities, such as rooms or shipments.

Within the International System of Units (SI), the derived unit for volume is the cubic meter (m^3). The liter is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. One liter equals 0.001 cubic meters, and one cubic meter equals 1000 liters. A milliliter equals one cubic centimeter and equals 0.001 liters.

Origin and usage: The word is formed from mahu (volume) and ühik (unit). It is used as a generic term in dictionaries and technical texts to refer to a unit of volume rather than to a specific measure.

See also: Units of volume.