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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 some spots, their numbers can reach nearly 40,000 per square meter.

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 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

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

Golden mussel takeovers in other countries have shown that the species can grow in clumps or colonies containing as many as 80,000 to 200,000 organisms per square meter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2024

It is connected through one extremity with the line, and through the other with a disk of copper, which has a surface of one square meter, and is immersed in the sea.

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