AREA UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does area unit mean? 

• AREA UNIT (noun)
  The noun AREA UNIT has 1 sense:

1. a system of units used to measure areas

  Familiarity information: AREA UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AREA UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A system of units used to measure areas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

area unit; square measure

Hypernyms ("area unit" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "area unit"):

hectare ((abbreviated 'ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters))

column inch; inch (a unit of measurement for advertising space)

agate line; line (space for one line of print (one column wide and 1/14 inch deep) used to measure advertising)

em; em quad; mutton quad (a quad with a square body)

perch; pole; rod (a square rod of land)

morgen (a South African unit of measure equal to about 2 acres)

dessiatine (a former Russian unit of area equal to 2.7 acres)

b; barn ((physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter)

arpent (a former French unit of area; equal approximately to an acre)

sq in; square inch (a unit of area equal to one inch by one inch square)

ar; are (a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters)

acre (a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries)

quarter section (a land unit equal to a quarter of a section (160 acres) and measuring 1/2 mile on a side)

square mile (an area of 640 acres)

centare; square meter; square metre (a centare is 1/100th of an are)

sq yd; square yard (a unit of area equal to one yard by one yard square)

sq ft; square foot (a unit of area equal to one foot by one foot square)

 Context examples 

A SI derived unit of spread rate of a substance by mass expressed in kilograms per area unit equal to one square centimeter, used also as a measure of area density and as a dose calculation unit.

(Kilogram per Square Centimeter, NCI Thesaurus)