Alternativa stavningar
- (föråldrada ord) acer
- (föråldrada ord) acker
- (föråldrada ord) aker
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (obsolete) A field.
- A unit of surface area (symbol a. or ac.), originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day; later defined as an area 1 chain (22 yd) by 1 furlong (220 yd), or 4,840 square yards. Equivalent to about 4,046.86 square metres.
- (in the plural, informal) A large amount (of area).
Exempel
- 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!
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