surface area

noun

: the amount of area covered by the surface of something

The lake has roughly the same surface area as 10 football fields.

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The term refers to a class of porous crystalline materials that have large pores, plenty of surface area, and low density. —

New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2024 Blackstone 22-inch Tabletop Griddle $160 at Amazon A portable grill is key for serving up delicious food to hungry football fans, and Blackstone's tabletop griddle has plenty of surface area to accommodate a big group. —

Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 2 Oct. 2024 The algebraic black hole calculation more rigorously reinforces another message from Hawking and Bekenstein’s work: Entropy increases in proportion to the black hole’s growing surface area. —

Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2024 At the same time, however, AI is rapidly expanding the potential surface area for automotive cyberattacks. —

Max Cheng, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for surface area