hectare
18
3.8
- noun
- /ˈhɛkˌtɛr/
- Specialized
:
hectárea
- The Penans are also allowed to live and hunt in the 52,000-hectare Mulu National Park.
Now they're saying lakes, hectares worth of lakes of water.
- Now they're saying lakes, hectares worth of lakes of water.
- And the the the hectares of the cocaine of the coca plant being grown in that region.
Examples
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Aside from getting the seed potatoes, You need about a ton of fertilizer per hectare.
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One is to make our food systems much more productive, to get much higher yields per hectare of land.
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All units in tons of carbon per hectare per year. Box 2.
Academic text (2008) -
By law they cannot cut it, so they just leave one tree on thousands of hectares of land.
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Now the problem was that we also found that species richness per hectare had decreased.
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Are populations of tree species stable on a local scale of several hectares in primary forest?
Academic text (1992) -
Yeah, something like 14 million hectares are being irrigated.
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Recent data show that Costa Rica has 107,000 hectares of coffee in production.
Academic text (1999) -
During the first five years of this policy (1989-1994), 182,374 hectares were set aside in Aragon.
Academic text (2011) -
The farmer has expanded his fields to cover over 100 hectares of fertile land.
How Big
- US
15
2.6
- Specialized
18
3.8
382
1.3
- US
10
1.0
- Specialized
1
2.2
- US
1
2.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hectare comes from the prefix hecto- meaning 'hundred' and the old unit are meaning 'a small area of 100 square meters'. So a hectare is 'a hundred ares' or 10,000 square meters, which is why we use it to measure land.