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.

Examples of surface area in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys are two of the largest manufacturers of chip design software, which helps to map billions of microscopic transistors onto a surface area of just a few millimeters. — Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 13 July 2026

The flat design allows each satellite to have a broader surface area facing the Earth. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026

Power connections, which are fewer in number and take up more surface area, are placed on the sides of the memory cube, University of Tokyo doctoral student Yuki Mitarai said at the symposium. — IEEE Spectrum, 8 July 2026

Native architectures shrink the surface area for gaps, latency and instability. — Brian Stimpfl, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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