surface area
Americannoun
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surface areas
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of surface area
First recorded in 1820–30
Example Sentences
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“We’ve been able to cover all the surface area that we used to,” says Haneen Azhar, a senior growth marketing manager at Lindy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Lake Ontario is the smallest by surface area of the five Great Lakes, which straddle the border between the United States and Canada.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Male ski jumpers were rumoured to be using fillers to increase the surface area of their suits so they could jump further.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The material consists of porous, hollow carbon spheres containing orderly radial nanochannels, along with substantial pore space and surface area.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
There are many valleys in the mountains of the mind, convolutions that greatly increase the surface area available in the cerebral cortex for information storage in a skull of limited size.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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