0 a particular part of a place, piece of land, or country: --
1 a subject or activity, or a part of it: --
Software is not really my area of expertise.
Marketing is Paul's area.
2 the size of a flat surface calculated by multiplying its length by its width: --
Meadow Farm is 50 square kilometres in area.
the area of a rectangle
3 → penalty area --
4 a part of the earth’s surface of land and water, or a particular part of a country, city, town, etc.: --
an industrial/suburban/mountainous area
5 a particular subject or activity: --
One of its strengths is the diversity of the contact situations that are discussed, which range from major areas to minor case studies.
The open areas between the ribs are 27 mm wide and 100 mm high.
Men and women had separate bedrooms, but all other areas were used jointly.
A total of 600 ticks were caught by sweeping lowlying vegetation of all accessible areas at the zoos with a cotton flag (flagging method).
The patients are usually brought to hospitals at the late stage of illness in the rural areas.
Missing data are from areas that did not participate.
We, therefore, restrict ourselves to saying that there tend to be more hotspots in areas of higher manhole density.
There were areas of parkland that had no sewers and areas of housing which had no recorded takes.
