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square inch

noun

  1. a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. : in 2 , sq. in.


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The new chip designed by Arm squeezed 50,000 transistors into a little under one square inch.

Whether you’re ensconced in the air-conditioned comfort of your own vehicle or relegated to public transportation, you become intensely aware of the sand covering every square inch of your body.

Inside each little disk, two jets of solution are forced through a tunnel about the width of a human hair and sent into a head-on collision at 450 pounds per square inch of pressure.

Plans are drafted and calculations made that suggest a maximum “overpressure” — or shock wave — of one pound per square inch would be felt at the peripheries of these terminals.

Turning every square inch of land over to a single crop decimated wildlife habitat across the Midwest.

What the FDA has declared is that only food with fewer than six of the critters per square inch will be allowed.

The Israeli army—and the army of no other country—can arrest someone on every square inch of the West Bank.

Doctors over the last 2,500 years have been a varied lot who occupy just about every square inch of the human grid.

In return, Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt, every square inch.

“They would do one square-inch of skin at a time,” she said.

Not a square inch of paper, they saw, could be concealed there.

They form the chief organs of absorption in the intestine, several thousand being distributed over every square inch of surface.

We sewed up the wound in his temple, bandaged his foot, and applied a square inch of black plaster to the tip of his nose.

It radiates more per square inch than our sun, but, due to its tiny size, it is very faint.

In kerosene injection engines the compression of 250 pounds per square inch has been used with marked economy.

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