: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see Metric System Table
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The biggest and most important part of Karnak is a massive 30-hectare area built to honor the sun god Amun-Ra.
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Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
This might beg the question of the benefit of interplanting if crops don’t provide their maximum yield, but comparing the nutritional yield of polyculture versus monoculture parcels of land demonstrated that interplanting yielded greater nutritional value per hectare despite the lower crop yields.
—JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
Over the past year, Terradot has scaled deployment, applying more than 100,000 tonnes of basalt across 4,500 hectares, which is about the size of Manhattan.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
The property, which boasts a 10-hectare park, was originally built in 1568 and named Villa Garovo.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
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Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2025
This might beg the question of the benefit of interplanting if crops don’t provide their maximum yield, but comparing the nutritional yield of polyculture versus monoculture parcels of land demonstrated that interplanting yielded greater nutritional value per hectare despite the lower crop yields.
—JSTOR Daily, 14 Oct. 2025
Over the past year, Terradot has scaled deployment, applying more than 100,000 tonnes of basalt across 4,500 hectares, which is about the size of Manhattan.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
The property, which boasts a 10-hectare park, was originally built in 1568 and named Villa Garovo.
—Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2025
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hectare
noun
hect·are
ˈhek-ˌta(ə)r 
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌte(ə)r
-ˌtär
: a unit of area equal to 10,000 square meters see metric system
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