Definition of area

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Area (n.) Extent; scope; range; as, a wide area of thought..

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Gastroelytrotomy :: Gastroelytrotomy (n.) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Caesarean operation, and less dangerous..
Pit :: Pit (n.) An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats..
Cancellarean :: Cancellarean (a.) Cancellarean.
Area :: Area (n.) The sunken space or court, giving ingress and affording light to the basement of a building..
Interambulacrum :: Interambulacrum (n.) In echinoderms, one of the areas or zones intervening between two ambulacra. See Illust. of Ambulacrum..
Areed :: Areed (v. t.) To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream..
Area :: Area (n.) A spot or small marked space; as, the germinative area..
Area :: Area (n.) An extent of surface; a tract of the earth's surface; a region; as, vast uncultivated areas..
Lunule :: Lunule (n.) A special area in front of the beak of many bivalve shells. It sometimes has the shape of a double crescent, but is oftener heart-shaped. See Illust. of Bivalve..
Litmus :: Litmus (n.) A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens (Roccella tinctoria, Lecanora tartarea, etc.), as a blue amorphous mass which consists of a compound of the alkaline carbonates with certain coloring matters related to orcin and orcein..
Clary :: Clary (n.) A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups..
Cockpit :: Cockpit (n.) A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights..
Glacier :: Glacier (n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland..
Pterylosis :: Pterylosis (n.) The arrangement of feathers in definite areas.
Pioned :: Pioned (a.) A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., abounding in marsh marigolds..
Surveyor :: Surveying (n.) That branch of applied mathematics which teaches the art of determining the area of any portion of the earth's surface, the length and directions of the bounding lines, the contour of the surface, etc., with an accurate delineation of the whole on paper; the act or occupation of making surveys..
Tapetum :: Tapetum (n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid..
Pteryla :: Pteryla (n.) One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.
Mensuration :: Mensuration (n.) That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles..
Quadrable :: Quadrable (a.) That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms..
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