square inch

noun

1. a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one inch on each side; 6.452 square centimeters. : in 2 , sq. in.

Example Sentences

The new chip designed by Arm squeezed 50,000 transistors into a little under one square inch.

From 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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Washington Post

Turning every square inch of land over to a single crop decimated wildlife habitat across the Midwest.

From Outside Online

What the FDA has declared is that only food with fewer than six of the critters per square inch will be allowed.

From The Daily Beast

The Israeli army—and the army of no other country—can arrest someone on every square inch of the West Bank.

From The 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.

From The Daily Beast

In return, Israel returned the Sinai to Egypt, every square inch.

From The Daily Beast

“They would do one square-inch of skin at a time,” she said.

From The Daily Beast

Not a square inch of paper, they saw, could be concealed there.

From Project Gutenberg

They form the chief organs of absorption in the intestine, several thousand being distributed over every square inch of surface.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

It radiates more per square inch than our sun, but, due to its tiny size, it is very faint.

From Project Gutenberg

In kerosene injection engines the compression of 250 pounds per square inch has been used with marked economy.

From Project Gutenberg