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noun
1.
any particular extent of space or surface; part: the dark areas in the painting; the dusty area of the room.
2.
a geographical region; tract: the Chicago area; the unsettled areas along the frontier.
3.
any section reserved for a specific function: the business area of a town; the dining area of a house.
4.
extent, range, or scope: inquiries that embrace the whole area of science.
5.
EXPANDfield of study, or a branch of a field of study: Related areas of inquiry often reflect borrowed notions.
6.
a piece of unoccupied ground; an open space.
7.
the space or site on which a building stands; the yard attached to or surrounding a house.
8.
British. areaway (def. 1).
9.
the quantitative measure of a plane or curved surface; two-dimensional extent.
10.
COLLAPSEAnatomy. a zone of the cerebral cortex having a specific function: The damage to Broca's area affected his speech.
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is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
area
1530s, "vacant piece of ground," from L. area "level ground, open space," of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to arere "to become dry," on notion of a burned clearing or dry, bare space. The generic sense of "amount of surface (whether open or not) contained within any set of limits" is from 1845. Area
EXPANDcode in N.Amer. telephone systems is attested from 1961.
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Medical Dictionary
area ar·e·a (âr'ē-ə)
n. pl. ar·e·as or ar·e·ae (-ē-ē')
A circumscribed surface or space.
All of a part that is supplied by a given artery or nerve.
A part of an organ having a special function.
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Science Dictionary
area  (âr'ē-ə) Pronunciation Key
The extent of a surface or plane figure as measured in square units. |
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