{"id":910,"date":"2025-10-15T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=910"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:56:21","slug":"what-are-measurements-of-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/what-are-measurements-of-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Measurements of Capacity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Measurement of Capacity<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-911\" src=\"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/venture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cap-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The maximum amount that something can hold is called it\u2019scapacity.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>The standard unit of capacity is litre.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Millilitre, centilitre, decilitre\u00a0are smaller unit used to measure smaller capacity, litre is commonly used to measure capacity, whereas units like decalitre, hectolitre and kilolitre are used to measure larger capacity. All these units are related to each other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let us look at the capacity conversion chart-<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-912\" src=\"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/venture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cap1-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the capacity conversion charts, units of capacities and their equivalents are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 kilolitre (kl) = 10 Hectolitres (hl) = 1000 l<\/li>\n<li>1 Hectolitre (hl) = 10 Decalitres (dal) = 100 l<\/li>\n<li>1 Decalitre (dal) = 10 Litres (l)<\/li>\n<li>1 Litre (l) = 10 Decilitres (dl) = 100 cl = 1000 ml<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>1 Decilitre (dl) = 10 Centilitres (cl)<\/li>\n<li>1 Decilitre = 0.1 Litre<\/li>\n<li>1 Centilitre (cl) = 10 Millilitres (ml)<\/li>\n<li>1 Centilitre = 0.01 Litre<\/li>\n<li>1 Millilitre = 0.001 Litre<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Conversion<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>While converting from a larger unit to a smaller unit, we multiply<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Example 1:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0 kl\u00a0\u2192\u00a0l<\/p>\n<p>1 kl = 1000 l<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, 3.1 kl = 3 x 1000 = 3100 l<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Example 2:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0l\u00a0\u2192\u00a0ml<\/p>\n<p>1 l = 1000 ml<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, 4 l = 4 x 1000 = 4000 ml<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>While converting from a smaller unit to a larger unit, we divide<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Example 1:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 l\u00a0\u2192\u00a0kl<\/p>\n<p>1 l = 1\/1000 kl<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, 10 l = 10\/1000 kl = 0.010 kl<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Example 2:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 ml\u00a0\u2192\u00a0l<\/p>\n<p>1 ml = 1\/1000 l<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, 3 ml = 3\/1000 l = 0.003 l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measurement of Capacity The maximum amount that something can hold is called it\u2019scapacity. The standard unit of capacity is litre. Millilitre, centilitre, decilitre\u00a0are smaller unit used to measure smaller capacity, litre is commonly used to measure capacity, whereas units like decalitre, hectolitre and kilolitre are used to measure larger capacity. All these units are related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[590],"tags":[595],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grade-5","tag-grade-5-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526,"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kapdec.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}