Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of an area: as, areal interstices.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to an area.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to an area.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or involving an area
Examples
“That works out to a storage density, called areal density in the industry, of 329GB per square inch - the highest yet for any hard-disk drive, according to Seagate.”
“They are producing areal-time map of crisis-relevant locations in Haiti.”
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“This is areal case: a trial court in Georgia convicted a woman of sexual assault on her female student and sentenced the teacher to 10 years in jail plus 5 years of probation.”
“We are all members of areal"great chain of being": not the medieval pipe dream, but one described and verified by physics and cosmology.”
The Huffington Post: Joseph Smigelski: Life Without Religion
“Climate policy that reduces carbon dioxide emissions may increase the areal impact of energy, although the magnitude of this potential side effect may be substantially mitigated by increases in energy efficiency.”
“The simple fact that solar energy has a low areal density limits how low the power collecting system costs can go.”
“Rain increases in areal coverage during the evening hours and sticks around through a good part of Thursday night.”
The Washington Post: PM Update: Soaking rains gradually arrive
“In the areal shots, you can see his hair flapping in the wind because he was actually doing it.”
“Weather.com says the storm may be historic, due to the areal coverage of snow forecast - with upwards of 1 foot likely across a "2100-mile long swath from the Southern Plains to coastal New England.”
The Washington Post: Snow storm to bury Midwest, New England
“When we did our study for DARPA in 2004 we found a mirror technology with a diffraction limited performance at 550 nanometers of lamda/10 and an areal density of about 7 kg/m2.”
Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch
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mr_write areal = relating to or involving an area. Dec 9, 2007