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square meter

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noun

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


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The system achieved a power density of about 15 watts per square meter.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

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

Today, there are no native oyster aggregations that we know of in Europe bigger than a tenth of a hectare, and most wild populations exist at densities lower than one oyster per square meter.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2025

Women show a metabolism which is 7 per cent. lower than that of men, or 37 calories per hour per square meter of surface.

From Food in War Time by Lusk, Graham