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square meter

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noun

square meters plural
  1. a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one meter on each side. m 2 , sq. m


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In our conversation, he turns to her, “You just gave me permission to exist nowhere else except within the one square meter of where we were sitting.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2026

Cao Ying, 38, runs a 1,000 square meter facility—roughly the size of two NBA basketball courts—in Wuppertal, outside of Düsseldorf, Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 18, 2025

The team measured a heat flow of 46 ± 4 milliwatts per square meter.

From Science Daily Nov. 9, 2025

We may describe it in terms of location, of square meter size, of roof type or various other characteristics.

From Salon Jan. 19, 2025

The weeding out of supernumerary individuals had not only increased the percentage of bright crowns, but also their absolute number per square meter.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

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