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hectare
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Word definitions for hectare in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hectare \Hec"tare`\, n. [F., fr. Gr. ? hundred + F. are an are.] A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1810, from French hectare "a hundred ares," formed from Greek hekaton "hundred" (see hecatomb ) + Latin area "vacant piece of ground" (see area ). A superficial measure containing 100 ares, coined by decree of the French National Convention in 1795.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A unit of surface area (''symbol'' ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The hectare ( or ; symbol ha ) is an SI accepted metric system unit of :area equal to and primarily used in the measurement of land as a metric replacement for the imperial acre . An acre is about 0.405 hectare and one hectare contains about 2.47 acres. ...
Usage examples of hectare.
When the autobahn went into an overpass he could look down to the right and see it stretching away into the December night, thousands of hectares of lights and mills, aglow from a thousand furnaces churning out the wealth of the economic miracle.
But Beman derived from human, robot, and Hectare elements, which were scientific, and they related well to the things of science and not to the things of magic.
There was no place to fly on Umber, but the ships of the Earth Convoy were equipped for worlds like Rondelet and Biruta, where solid ground was scattered in patches of a few hectares each.
Some score of sizable rivers run unutilized in the Province to-day, of which the Talavera alone could irrigate, if put in complete harness, 10,000 hectares of rice land.
In French peasants we have driven sewage carts over our hectares, estimating the unsown crop, and the cost, and the sowing.
The bog itself appeared on the map as a set of irregular blank areas between the River Brosna and the few hectares of arable land.
On the Pacific coast, where Yokohama and Kawasaki had once been, were five Soleri structures, each twelve kilometers tall, surrounded by a hundred thousand hectares of city greenspace, then a vast jumble of townships, each following its own architectural plan, each with over ten million citizens.
How many hectares does a golf course take up, all the while people in Redmond and Puyallup are scragging each other for a two-square-meter squat in an alley?
The one at Parish spacefield was long past its prime, sixty hectares of corroded hulls, acid-eaten scrap, cracked plastipaneling remnants, and wormeaten wood.
The estate was a sizable piece of property, three hectares or so in what appeared to be a most exclusive area of Parish Above.
The admin center was only a small part of the urbanplex, but its roof was forty hectares or so of giant outlets, intakes, vents, stacks, and waste heat dis-sipators.
Some score of sizable rivers run unutilized in the Province to-day, of which the Talavera alone could irrigate, if put in complete harness, 10,000 hectares of rice land.
Behind this miniature town there lay 1,500 hectares of meadow land, bounded by an embankment of lava.
I own a couple of thousand hectares in the state of Wyoming, in the mountains.
He carefully aimed the device into countless hectares of lifeless nothingness.