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area
A measure of surface extension in two-dimensional space. "Area" is the Latin word for a vacant piece of level ground and still carries this more everyday meaning. The French shortened form are denotes a square of land with a side length of 10 meters, i.e. an area of 100 square meters. A hectare is a hundred are.
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