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noun

a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. Abbreviation: in2, sq. in.

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How to use square inch in a sentence

The new chip designed by Arm squeezed 50,000 transistors into a little under one square inch.
Arm’s New Flexible Plastic Chip Could Enable an ‘Internet of Everything’|Edd Gent|July 26, 2021|Singularity Hub
Whether you’re ensconced in the air-conditioned comfort of your own vehicle or relegated to public transportation, you become intensely aware of the sand covering every square inch of your body.
My 10 Best Post-Adventure Showers|aheard|July 26, 2021|Outside Online
Inside each little disk, two jets of solution are forced through a tunnel about the width of a human hair and sent into a head-on collision at 450 pounds per square inch of pressure.
Inside Pfizer’s race to produce the world’s biggest supply of covid vaccine|Christopher Rowland|June 16, 2021|Washington Post
Plans are drafted and calculations made that suggest a maximum “overpressure” — or shock wave — of one pound per square inch would be felt at the peripheries of these terminals.
Engineers raise alarms over the risk of major explosions at LNG plants|Will Englund|June 3, 2021|Washington Post

Turning every square inch of land over to a single crop decimated wildlife habitat across the Midwest.
How Non-Native Pheasants Protect American Biodiversity|Wes Siler|April 1, 2021|Outside Online
What the FDA has declared is that only food with fewer than six of the critters per square inch will be allowed.
U.S. Wants Freedom from ‘Filthy’ French Cheese|Alice Guilhamon, Christopher Dickey|July 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Israeli army—and the army of no other country—can arrest someone on every square inch of the West Bank.
What Shmuley Boteach Doesn't Understand|Peter Beinart|June 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Doctors over the last 2,500 years have been a varied lot who occupy just about every square inch of the human grid.
Scott DesJarlais Crossed the Line by Having Sex With Patients|Kent Sepkowitz|November 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In return, Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt, every square inch.
Obama's Mideast Bribes Won't Work|Leslie H. Gelb|November 21, 2010|DAILY BEAST
“They would do one square-inch of skin at a time,” she said.
Don't Tax My Tan!|Nicole LaPorte|June 15, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Not a square inch of paper, they saw, could be concealed there.
Auld Licht Idylls|J. M. Barrie
They form the chief organs of absorption in the intestine, several thousand being distributed over every square inch of surface.
A Civic Biology|George William Hunter
We sewed up the wound in his temple, bandaged his foot, and applied a square inch of black plaster to the tip of his nose.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar Allan Poe
It radiates more per square inch than our sun, but, due to its tiny size, it is very faint.
Islands of Space|John W Campbell
In kerosene injection engines the compression of 250 pounds per square inch has been used with marked economy.
Aviation Engines|Victor Wilfred Pag