square measure

American  

noun

1. a system of units for the measurement of surfaces or areas.

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square measure British  

noun

1. a unit or system of units for measuring areas

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Etymology

Origin of square measure

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Layout the strip of canvas on the floor and cut one end square; measure up 8 inches along the edge and draw a line to the other corner.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The smiths whom I have seen working had no dividers, square, measure, or any instrument of precision.

From Navajo Silversmiths Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-1881, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 167-178 by Matthews, Washington

Professor Oppert, Dr. Eisenlohr, M. Thureau-Dangin, and others have discussed at length the plan of a field,644 which has the sides of several plots given in linear measure and the areas in square measure.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

The root of life was the cube root; the measure of existence was square measure.

From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.

Knowledge of the metric system for linear and square measure would perhaps, as an introduction to decimal fractions, more than save the time spent to learn it.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Thorndike, Edward L. (Edward Lee)