area unit

Questions about area unit

What does area unit mean?

area unit means "a system of units used to measure areas".

What is another word for area unit?

Close synonyms include square measure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is area unit a common word?

area unit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.