square metre

English

Alternative forms

• square meter (US)

Noun

metre units

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square metre (plural square metres)

1. A standard unit of area, regardless of its shape, equal to the area of a square whose sides are one metre long (that is, an area one meter square) Symbol: m²

   A floor 4 metres square contains 16 square metres.

   • 2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 22, page 30:

     As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

Synonyms

• m² (symbol)
• centiare

Translations

standard unit of area

• Arabic: مِتْرٌ مُرَبَّعٌ m (mitrun murabbaʕun)
• Basque: metro karratu inan, metro koadro inan
• Belarusian: квадра́тны метр m (kvadrátny mjetr), квадра́тны мэ́тар m (kvadrátny métar) (taraškievica)
• Catalan: metre quadrat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 平方へいほう米まい (ping⁴ fong¹ mai⁵), 平方ひらかた公こう尺じゃく (ping⁴ fong¹ gung¹ cek³)

  Mandarin: 平方へいほう米まい (zh) (píngfāngmǐ), 平方ひらかた公こう尺じゃく (zh) (píngfāng gōngchǐ), 平米へいべい (zh) (píngmǐ), 平方へいほう (zh) (píngfāng)

• Czech: metr čtverečný m, metr čtvereční m
• Danish: kvadratmeter (da) c
• Dutch: vierkante meter (nl) m
• Esperanto: kvadratmetro (eo), kvadrata metro
• Estonian: ruutkilomeeter
• Finnish: neliömetri (fi)
• French: mètre carré (fr) m
• Galician: metro cadrado (gl) m
• Georgian: კვადრატული მეტრი (ḳvadraṭuli meṭri)
• German: Quadratmeter (de) m
• Greek: τετραγωνικό μέτρο n (tetragonikó métro)
• Hungarian: négyzetméter (hu)
• Icelandic: fermetri m
• Indonesian: meter persegi (id)
• Ingrian: kvadrattimetra
• Italian: metro quadrato (it) m, metro quadro (it) m
• Japanese: 平方へいほうメートル (ja) (heihō-mētoru), 平米へいべい (ja) (へいべい, heibei)
• Khmer: ម៉ែត្រការ៉េ (maet kaa reɛ), ម៉ែត្រក្រឡា (maet krɑlaa)
• Korean: 평방 미터 (pyeongbang miteo)
• Lao: ແມັດມົນທົນ (mæt mon thon)
• Latvian: kvadrātmetrs m
• Lithuanian: kvadratinis metras m
• Macedonian: квадратен метар m (kvadraten metar)
• Northern Sami: njealjehasmehter
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kvadratmeter m

  Nynorsk: kvadratmeter m

• Polish: metr kwadratowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: metro quadrado (pt) m
• Romanian: metru pătrat (ro) m
• Russian: квадра́тный метр (ru) m (kvadrátnyj metr)
• Scottish Gaelic: meatair ceàrnagach m
• Slovak: štvorcový meter m
• Spanish: metro cuadrado m
• Swahili: mita ya mraba
• Swedish: kvadratmeter (sv) c, kvm (sv) c
• Thai: ตารางเมตร (th)
• Turkish: metrekare (tr)
• Ukrainian: квадра́тний ме́тр m (kvadrátnyj métr)
• Vietnamese: mét vuông (vi)

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