SURFACE AREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surface area mean? 

• SURFACE AREA (noun)
  The noun SURFACE AREA has 1 sense:

1. the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary

  Familiarity information: SURFACE AREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURFACE AREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

area; expanse; surface area

Context example:

it was about 500 square feet in area

Hypernyms ("surface area" is a kind of...):

extent (the distance or area or volume over which something extends)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surface area"):

acreage; land area (an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming))

footprint (the area taken up by some object)

erasure (a surface area where something has been erased)

blank space; place; space (a blank area)

space (one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff)

balk; baulk (the area on a billiard table behind the balkline)

plane section; section ((geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid)

 Context examples 

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity from dosing time, based on the predicted last concentration, divided by the surface area.

(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

Minutes times micrograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).

(Minute Times Microgram per Milliliter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Minutes times micromoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).

(Minute Times Micromole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Minutes times millimoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).

(Minute Times Millimole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Minutes times moles per liter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).

(Minute Times Mole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the curve (AUC) for the defined interval between doses (TAU) divided by the surface area.

(AUC Over Dosing Interval Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the moment curve (AUMC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.

(AUMC Infinity Observed Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

AUCTAU divided by TAU and then divided by the surface area.

(Average Concentration Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by the surface area.

(AURC from T1 to T2 Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the first moment curve (AUMC) for the defined interval between doses (TAU) divided by the surface area.

(AUMC Over Dosing Interval Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)