area

Plural

areas

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

   • It is about 4.5 million square kilometers in area and holds the world’s third largest collection of ice after Antarctica and Greenland.

2. 2.A particular geographic region.

   • I thought you knew this area.

3. 3.Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.

   • The photo is a little dark in that area.

4. 4.The extent, scope, or range of an object or concept.

   • The plans are a bit vague in that area.
   • 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.

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