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

Roebbelen expanded it to roughly twice its former surface area. — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 5 Sep. 2026

Vista Fleet’s Coffee and Colors Sunrise Cruise sails along the shoreline of Duluth, Minnesota’s Lake Superior, the world’s largest freshwater lake by surface area. — Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2026

About 52% of the surface area of Lake Ontario is in Canada, with the remainder in New York. — Reuters, NBC news, 2 Sep. 2026

The smallest of the five Great Lakes, by surface area, Lake Ontario sits on the border between the Canadian province of Ontario to the north and New York to the south. — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for surface area

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