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square meter

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noun

square meters plural
  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

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

According to Rademaker, the solution to that problem lies in extremely consistent measurement, almost to the square meter.

From Science Daily Apr. 25, 2024

To give 1 square meter a capacity of 20 ampere hours, there is required only a quarter of an hour's treatment.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various

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