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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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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 now know modern definitions of healthy oyster habitats, which cite more than five oysters per square meter and reefs only a few meters wide, actually reflect an impoverished state.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2025

The result of any culture will thus be dependent to a high degree on the number of individuals per square meter.

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