areal
/ˈɛɹiəl//ˈɛəɹɪəl/
areal adjective: of or pertaining to an area or geographic region.
Adjective
areal (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to an area or geographic region.
- areal flood warning
- areal interstices
areal meaning in Tamil, Arabic and Indonesian
areal in Tamil
- பரப்பளவுள்ள, வெற்றிடத்துக்கு உரிய, நிலப்பகுதிக்கு மேலுள்ள, நிலப்பகுதிக்கு உரிய
areal in Arabic
- areal
- مِسَاحِيّ misāḥiyy
areal in Indonesian
- areal
- areal
Examples of areal in a sentence
- Areal density is often used as a technology growth-rate indicator for the hard disk drive industry.2004, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, page 307:
- Because DXA measurements are areal, bone size can affect the apparent BMD.2009, Sydney Lou Bonnick, Bone Densitometry in Clinical Practice: Application and Interpretation, page 157:
- The areal sweep efficiency E_A is defined as the fraction of the total flood pattern that is contacted by the displacing fluid.2010, Tarek Ahmed, Reservoir Engineering Handbook, page 985:
Origin of areal
Borrowed from Latin āreālis; by surface analysis, area + -al. Cognate with English areolar. False cognates include English arena, adrenal, anear.
Words formed from areal
Words that rhyme with areal
- aerial
- ariel
- glossarial
- emissarial
- filarial
- furcocercarial
- nareal
- notarial
- proprietarial
- secretarial
- vicarial
- anticercarial
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- antifilarial
- antimalarial
- antimicrofilarial
- apothecarial
- aquarial
- Arial
- biareal
- bibliothecarial
- bipinnarial
- bursarial
- calendarial
- calvarial
- cancellarial
- cercarial
- cibarial
- circumnarial
- commentarial
- commissarial
- conarial
- corollarial
- diarial
- dictionarial
- dirofilarial
- dissepimentarial
- estuarial
- extraovarial
- fusarial
- garial
- germarial
- gharial
- herbarial
- impresarial
- interareal
- intergermarial
- internarial
- intracalvarial
- intranarial
- intrapuparial
- kalendarial
- librarial
- macrofilarial
- malarial
- metacercarial
- microfilarial
- miliarial
- monetarial
- narial
- nectareal
Questions about areal
- What does areal mean?
- Areal means of or pertaining to an area or geographic region.
- What is areal in Tamil?
- Areal in Tamil is பரப்பளவுள்ள, வெற்றிடத்துக்கு உரிய, நிலப்பகுதிக்கு மேலுள்ள. See Areal meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use areal in a sentence?
- Areal density is often used as a technology growth-rate indicator for the hard disk drive industry.
- What part of speech is areal?
- Areal is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce areal?
- Areal is pronounced /ˈɛɹiəl/.
Words near areal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: areal (page history and authors); areal (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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