hectare
noun
a unit of surface, or land, measure equal to 100 ares, or 10,000 square meters: equivalent to 2.471 acres. ha
hectares
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pluralof hectare.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Indonesia's government has not provided official figures for areas burned since announcing 202,000 hectares had been razed by the end of July.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
"Our burned-area estimates are conservative for two reasons. First, we exclude individual burn scars smaller than 6.25 hectares... Second, we prioritise avoiding false detections," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
To meet the target, agreed at the United Nations' COP26 climate talks in 2021, deforestation would have to fall by around one million hectares per year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
According to independent forest monitoring platform Nusantara Atlas, 1,043,377 wildfire hotspots have been recorded in Indonesia, burning a total of 900,000 hectares of land.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The buildings of the Hounslow Feely Studio covered seven and a half hectares.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
