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.
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Because bacteria compete for surface area on the gut lining, filling that space with good bacteria leaves less room for bad bacteria to grow.
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Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 24 Nov. 2025
Braun has the natural loping-goliath manner of a guy who has so much surface area to be hit with various blunt objects, and Young has the compressed intensity of someone drawing pain into themselves.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2025
Increasing the surface area of liquid The VST technology operates by pouring the tritium-rich lithium-lead alloy into a vacuum chamber.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
When measured for the entirety of Enceladus, including the heat flow towards the south pole, the moon is losing 54 gigawatts across its entire surface area, which is a close match for the amount of energy that tidal heating puts into the moon.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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Caitlin Pagán, Verywell Health, 24 Nov. 2025
Braun has the natural loping-goliath manner of a guy who has so much surface area to be hit with various blunt objects, and Young has the compressed intensity of someone drawing pain into themselves.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2025
Increasing the surface area of liquid The VST technology operates by pouring the tritium-rich lithium-lead alloy into a vacuum chamber.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Nov. 2025
When measured for the entirety of Enceladus, including the heat flow towards the south pole, the moon is losing 54 gigawatts across its entire surface area, which is a close match for the amount of energy that tidal heating puts into the moon.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Surface area.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surface%20area. Accessed 29 Nov. 2025.
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