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square foot

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. square foot, sq ftnoun

    a unit of area equal to one foot by one foot square

Wiktionary

  1. square footnoun

    A unit of area equal to the area of a square the sides of which are each one foot long.

Wikipedia

  1. Square foot

    The square foot (plural square feet; abbreviated sq. ft, sf, or ft2; also denoted by '2) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Hong Kong. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot. Although the pluralization is regular in the noun form, when used as an adjective, the singular is preferred. So, an apartment measuring 700 square feet could be described as a 700 square-foot apartment. This corresponds to common linguistic usage of foot.

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  1. square foot

    A square foot is a unit of area used in the imperial and U.S. customary measurement systems. It's defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot in length. One square foot is equal to 0.093 square meters in the metric system. It is typically used in architecture, real estate, and interior space plans.

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  1. Square foot

    The square foot is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area, used mainly in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot in length. For comparison, the average new one-family house in the United States in 2007 had a total floor area of approximately 2500 square feet. A symbol for square foot, square feet, and "per square foot" commonly used in architecture, real estate and interior space plans is a simple square with a vertical line bisecting it. It is also occasionally written as a square with a slash through it.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of square foot in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of square foot in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of square foot in a Sentence

  1. Chetan Dube:

    People argued with me, because this is almost double the price of per-square-foot real estate compared to Midtown. They said this is the stupidest move to get seven floors in this building, i said to our board, ‘The quality of life of our staff is very important to us. These people are our brainpower. They’re our engine. We need to provide them an environment for creative thinking.’.

  2. Donald Trump:

    I'm taking price per square foot and price per square, you know, per mile, and it's a very simple calculation.

  3. Julie Pendergraph:

    That’s probably a typo, there is no way on God’s green earth they are going to get that kind of money. That’s $ 905 a square foot. ' FIXER UPPER' STAR JOANNA GAINES SHOWS OFF NEW HOME LINE.

  4. Ken Peacock:

    There is a sticker shock phenomenon, a lot of these people are coming from 5,000-square-foot estates and here they get a three bedroom bungalow.

  5. Anthony Geisler:

    There's a massive difference between a 'gym' like a 40,000 big box facility and 1,000 square foot Pilates studio.


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