Convert pint (US) to milliliter

What is a pint?

If you ask someone what is a pint, you may hear the answer that it is the same as half a liter. Actually, this answer is almost correct, when there is no need for details

A pint is a volume unit that is popular in English-speaking countries. Still, there is an English and an American pint with different meanings:

• English equals 0.568 liters;
• American liquid means 0.473 liters;
• American dry corresponds to 0.551 liters.

Thus, the pint or pt for short is used for both liquids and bulk solids. That is the reason for several values for this unit. At first, it appeared as a 1/8 part of the gallon. The latter corresponded to 8 pounds of wheat. Then, it started to be utilized for other products with different meanings.

Thus, the Americans created the wine gallon for liquids and a corn gallon for bulk products. Later, they were transformed into liquid and dry pints. In the UK, the imperial gallon stayed equal to 10 pounds of distilled water and an English pint derived from it.

What is a milliliter?

If you need to measure a tiny amount of some liquid, you can do it using milliliters. These units do not belong to the standard systematic system but are still widely used in European and other countries. Such areas of life as medicine firmly stick to them and prefer them over all other options.

What does a milliliter mean? It corresponds to a 1/1000 part of a liter. The common designation for this option is mL.

If you want to imagine 1 mL, you have to think about a small cube with dimensions equal to 1 cm. Thus, it is the same as 1 cm3 that is a derivative of a systematic unit for volume measurement – a cubic meter.

In addition to their direct purpose, milliliters are also utilized for other derived physical units. For instance, density can be evaluated in g/ml3. Therefore, this option is quite common and popular.