area

Definition

A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ārea.

Example Sentences

• "It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland."
• "Eggimann used a computer algorithm to analyze data from the open-source geographic database OpenStreetMap and automatically detect areas with the superblock potential. He applied this analysis to 5 km x 5 km areas of the city center in 18 different cities around the world."
• "The photo is a little dark in that area."

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