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acre
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[ noun ] (geography) a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries
Used in print (Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)The new interchange among the four Los_Angeles freeways , including the grade-constructed accesses , occupies by itself no less than eighty acres of downtown land , one-eighth of a square_mile , an area about the size of Rockefeller_Center in New_York . Today , according_to land economist Homer_Hoyt , shopping_centers and their associated parking_lots cover some 46000 acres of land , which is almost exactly the total land_area in all the nation 's Central Business_Districts put together . (Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)Research at Fayette_, Missouri on oxidation ponds has shown that the BOD in the treated effluent varied from 30 to 53 mg / l with loadings from 8 to 120 lb BOD / day / acre . The oxidation pond has a surface_area of 4.77 acres and a depth of 4 ft . The pond is currently serving 1230 persons or 260 persons per acre . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 21106
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