What does atm•L mean? [closed]

In my chemistry book I always see a dot for units. For example, atm•L. Does this mean “1 atm per Liter?” By Atm I mean atmospheric pressure, not atom.

• dah... Thanks for the correction! // Yes $\mathrm{atmospheres}\space\times\space\mathrm{liter}$ – MaxW Jul 29 '18 at 21:52
• @MaxW How do you conceptualize that? Im just confused on that. Does this mean the unit of pressure in regard to one liter ? If you know what im saying? – user64524 Jul 29 '18 at 21:54
• 101.33 Joules = 1 l atm // You have to bust "complex" units down to primitives. So a liter is 1000 cm^3 and so on. Then rearrange to something that makes more sense. The whole think is called dimensional analysis. – MaxW Jul 29 '18 at 22:01
• @MaxW okay. I know dimensional analysis but when there are two units it’s confusing. So really atm•L needs to be broken down to make sense, more or less? Is that kind of what you mean. – user64524 Jul 29 '18 at 22:24
• atm-l presumably showed up in some formula. You wouldn't want to willy-nilly convert atm-l to joules without doing a dimensional analysis on the rest of the formula. The formula itself may be trying to solve for temperature. – MaxW Jul 29 '18 at 22:30

$\mathrm{atm \cdot L}$ is a derived unit for energy. Pressure is defined as being force/area, and volume is distance cubed. If you multiply out the units of these quantities, you can see it is equivalent to force times distance, i.e. work, measured in energy.