square inch

American  

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.

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square inch

The hand-spun yarn dyed in natural colours is woven on handlooms, packing in between 300 and several thousand knots per square inch, depending on the intricacy of the design.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

She looks up, eyes following every square inch of the structure until the point where it juts past the clouds and into the dark atmosphere above, beyond where she can see.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

“If every square inch of the land is developed,” Mr. Moore writes, “there will be no future for any of the species whose biology requires a semblance of wild land.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

The military measures the force of blast waves in pounds of pressure per square inch, and the current safety guidelines say that anything below 4 PSI is safe for the brain.

From New York Times ● May 2, 2024

I took both our plates into the kitchen, where the platters of kabob and rice took up every square inch of available counter space.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

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