Area

/ˈɛə.ɹi.ə/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
2. A particular geographic region.
3. Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
4. The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.
5. (British) An open space, below ground level, giving access to the basement of a house, and typically separated from the pavement by railings.
6. (soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
7. (slang) Genitals.

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.

The plans are a bit vague in that area.

Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.

The Green-Tao theorem on primes was a similar collaboration. Green is a specialist in an area called number theory, and Tao originally trained in an area called harmonic analysis.

A boy seized it, whom she bribed with a shilling to relinquish his prize, which she was taking home, when it escaped from her hand, and fell down the area of a house.

This was so favourably received by the milkman and beadle that he would immediately have been pushed into the area if I had not held his pinafore while Richard and Mr. Guppy ran down through the kitchen to catch him when he should be released.

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• areæ

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