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# hectare

«hectare» in Mova's school dictionary: **A metric unit of area equal to 10,000 square metres, the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a hectare, hectares)

### meaning for a pupil

(maths) A metric unit of area equal to 10,000 square metres, the size of a square 100 metres by 100 metres; symbol ha. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems on area and measures, and in geography for farms, forests and parks. A hectare is a bit larger than a football pitch. Phrases: per hectare, hectares of land.

### examples

- A hectare is a square 100 metres on each side. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/#x1)
- The farm covers 50 hectares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/#x2)
- A football pitch is about three quarters of a hectare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/#x3)
- The forest fire burned 2,000 hectares. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/#x4)
- How many square metres are in 3 hectares? 30,000. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/#x5)
- The farmer grows 8 tonnes of wheat per hectare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/#x6)

### note

For the numbers: 1 hectare = 10,000 m²; 100 hectares = 1 km²; 1 hectare is about 2.47 acres. Symbol ha. Plural hectares. Say HEK-tair.

### In the corpora

- [The seven letters of TEACHER also make CHEATER and HECTARE, and shorter words such as cheat, reach, each and heart.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/56-olympiad-word-puzzles-anagrams-palindromes-word-ladders/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hectare» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hectare/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.