Interarea
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 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."
- 2 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 characteristics from the actual panspots themselves."
- 1 Between areas. not-comparable
"It is shown that an improvement of interarea transport facilities may encourage trade and as a consequence decrease the disparity in area size."
Example
More examples"It is shown that an improvement of interarea transport facilities may encourage trade and as a consequence decrease the disparity in area size."
Etymology
From inter- + area.
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