HECTARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hectare mean? 

• HECTARE (noun)
  The noun HECTARE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HECTARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HECTARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("hectare" is a kind of...):

area unit; square measure (a system of units used to measure areas)

Meronyms (parts of "hectare"):

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

 Context examples 

In the previous period (2014-2015), the area cleared had totaled 18,433 hectares.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

Between 1985 and 2015, 219,735 hectares (2,197 km2) of the Atlantic Forest remnants went through a process of regeneration in nine of the 17 Brazilian states that have the forest.

(Brazil: Atlantic Forest regeneration in nine states, Agência Brasil)

It covers an area of 1,124,000 hectares.

(Amazon jungle animals to be monitored by sensors, Agência Brasil)

The cerrado has lost 88 million hectares—46% of its native coverage.

(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)

One hundred hectares is equal to one square kilometer.

(Hectare, NCI Thesaurus)

For every additional 1,000 ladybirds per hectare of cotton, farmers used 0.69 kilograms less insecticide while also saving time from reduced insecticide spraying.

(Study estimates true value of ladybird as biocontrol, SciDev.Net)

Fires raging in Australia since September have killed 24 people, destroyed more than 1,500 homes, and razed 6 million hectares of land, leaving more than 500 million animals dead.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

This giant could store as much carbon as an entire hectare of rainforest elsewhere in the Amazon.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

Since the first GM crops were planted 23 years ago, no ill effects have been documented; the crops have enjoyed an unblemished and proven safety record and have expanded 113-fold from 1.7 million hectares in 1996 to 191.7 million hectares in 2018.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

The Bahia municipalities of Santa Cruz Cabrália and Belmonte head the list with the top deforesters, with 3,058 hectares and 2,11 hectares respectively.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)