surface area

Questions about surface area

What does surface area mean?

surface area means "the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary".

What is another word for surface area?

Close synonyms include area, expanse. 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 surface area a common word?

surface area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.