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Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
- (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
- Any of various similar units of area in other systems.
- (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
- (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
- (obsolete) A field.
- (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yd (≈20 m) by 220 yd (≈200 m).
- (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
Esimerkit
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
- I like my new house - there’s acres of space!
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | acres |