hectare
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tɛər noun
a unit of surface, or land, measure equal to 100 ares, or 10,000 square meters: equivalent to 2.471 acres. Abbreviation: ha
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| ha one hundred ares. 1 hectare is equivalent to 10 000 square metres or 2.471 acres | |
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Hectare
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Word Origin & History
hectare
1810, from Fr. hectare "a hundred ares," formed from Gk. hekaton "hundred" (see hecatomb) + L. area "vacant piece of ground." A superficial measure containing 100 ares, coined by decree of the French National Convention in 1795.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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hectare
unit of area in the metric system equal to 100 ares, or 10,000 square metres, and the equivalent of 2.471 acres in the British Imperial System and the United States Customary measure. The term is derived from the Latin area and from hect, an irregular contraction of the Greek word for hundred. Although the are is the primary metric unit of land measurement, in practice the hectare is more commonly used. The hectare is, by subsequent definition, equal to a djerib in Turkey, a jerib in Iran, a gong qing in mainland China, a manzana in Argentina, and a bunder in The Netherlands.
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Example sentences
Potato production continues to rise as both the land area devoted to potato production and yield per hectare increase.
Nonirrigated areas average one to two metric tons a hectare.
These have squeezed more and more food out of each hectare of land.
Yield-tonnes per hectare, bushels per acre or whatever-is the traditional gauge of agriculture's performance.
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