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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 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

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

“If you think about the life down there as measured in grams per square meter, there’s around 10 grams of biomass... and 80% of that is bacteria,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

Women show a metabolism which is 7 per cent. lower than that of men, or 37 calories per hour per square meter of surface.

From Food in War Time by Graham Lusk

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