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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

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  1. square footnoun

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

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  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. Matt Lederer:

    We’ll lead with this at the 6,500 square-foot XFINITY Zone, which we bring to 14 or 15 race weekends. It’s a huge fan interactive area, this gives our fans a reason to believe that X1 is changing the way they experience NASCAR.

  2. Tom Painter:

    The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.

  3. Bruce Montgomery:

    Don't hide behind the coattails of government. Move forward with business solutions to solve the problems that we have right now, the good news is through advanced technologies, 3D printing, 3D manufacturing, you can put a manufacturing facility in your basement. You can put it in a 1,000 square foot garage. There's no reason we shouldn't be making and printing and designing and producing. And look, you can put a saying on a t-shirt and sell them for $40 and make a $2,000 on the weekend. So get your hustle on, and start doing business.

  4. Donald Trump:

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

  5. 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.


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