interarea

interarea adjective: between areas.

Adjective

interarea (not comparable)

Between areas.
- It is shown that an improvement of interarea transport facilities may encourage trade and as a consequence decrease the disparity in area size.2002, Wei-Bin Zhang, An Economic Theory of Cities, →ISBN, page 16
- Finally, as stated earlier, note that these adjustment factors can be used to add back to the characteristics-adjusted indexes the influence of variables that an analyst does not wish to remove in making interarea comparisons.2007, Alan Heston, Robert E. Lipsey, International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices, →ISBN

interarea (plural interareas)

A typically triangular shelf of shell on some brachiopods that serves as a weight-bearing surface to stabilize the valves.
- The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea.1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian and Canadian Brachiopoda, page 73
- In one sense the interareas, planareas, and palintropes are genetically the same in that they are all surfaces resulting from increment to the posterior margin.1942, Preston E. Cloud, Jr., Terebratuloid Brachiopoda of the Sillurian and Devonian, →ISBN, page 21
An area where the soil composition differs significantly from the surrounding region.
- In arranging the data for analyses, all sites that exhibited the behavior of an alkali or saline-alkali soil were grouped together and the panspot designation was used only for the panspot interareas. This was done because the panspot interareas were so widely different in their intake...1968, Technical Bulletin - Issues 1382-1394, page 12
- Soils in the interareas may be moderately deep and have fair to good vegetal cover ; thus, the rate of water intake on the interareas may be quite high.1968, Frank Rauzi, Claude Lee Fly, E. J. Dyksterhuis, Water Intake on Midcontinental Rangelands as Influenced by Soil and Plant Cover

Nevertheless, significant interarea differences in patterns of rights creation or in the distribution of property will not be reducible to differences in rates of testacy.2014, Toby L. Ditz, Property and Kinship: Inheritance in Early Connecticut, 1750-1820, →ISBN:
The posterio-lateral socket ridge lies between the socket and the interarea (pl. 2, figs. 9b, 13b, 16b).1949, Geological Survey Professional Paper, page L-2:
Pedicle valve with well developed sulcus; height and concavity of interareas highly variable, apsacline to catacline, rarely slightly procline.1995, Andrzej Baliński, Palaeontologia Polonica, number 54, page 60:
Spiriferides tend to have highly biconvex shells, with well-developed radial costae and a large interarea on the ventral valve.2013, Donald R. Prothero, Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, →ISBN, page 334:

plural	interareas

From inter- + area.

What does interarea mean?: Interarea means between areas.
How do you use interarea in a sentence?: Nevertheless, significant interarea differences in patterns of rights creation or in the distribution of property will not be reducible to differences in rates of testacy.
What part of speech is interarea?: Interarea can be an adjective or a noun.

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