In Money and the Mechanism of Exchange (1875), William Stanley Jevons famously analyzed money in terms of four functions: a medium of exchange, a common measure of value (or unit of account), a standard of value (or standard of deferred payment), and a store of value.
1 Cup [US] = 236.588237 Milliliters. 1 Cup [Metric] = 250 Milliliters. also. 1 Cup [Metric] = 1.057 Cup [US] For example, to calculate how many milliliters of water in a half (1/2) US cup, multiply the cup value by the conversion factor, (1/2) * 236.588237 = 118.3 ml. of water.
1 Cup [US] = 0.236588236 Liter. Cup is a volume unit and used mostly in cooking to measure liquid, bulk and dry foods. There is no international standard for cup sizes but mostly united states customary and metric cups are used. The abbreviation is c. Liter is volume unit which equals to 1 cubic decimeter (decimetre).