square mile en · NOUN
Meanings
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A unit of area equal to that in a square with 1 mile sides, equivalent to 2.59 km².
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
- A downtown, a city center.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| square miles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
640 sq. mi.) · labor · square foot (1/27,878,400 sq. mi.) · acre (1 · quarter-section
Deriveds
Square Mile · Golden Square Mile
Synonyms
sq. mi. · sq mi · m² · sq. m. · section · sq · mi²
Translations (9)
pl mila kwadratowa (unit of area) · cy milltir sgwâr (unit of area) · is fermíla (unit of area) · nv tsinsitą́ dikʼą́ (unit of area) · ms batu persegi (unit of area) · th ตารางไมล์ (unit of area) · de Quadratmeile (unit of area) · hu négyzetmérföld (unit of area) · ru квадра́тная ми́ля (unit of area)