square_mile has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) an area of 640 acres

Used in print

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

From these dosage isopleths it can be seen that an area of over 34000 square_miles was covered .

As can be seen from these dosage isopleths , approximately 100 square_miles was covered within the area sampled .

(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 .

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