• Areæ

    Noun

    plural

    1. areæ

      (irregular plural of area)
      • 1704 CE, PhiloÅ¿ophical tranÅ¿actions, Giving Å¿ome Account of the PreÅ¿ent Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, In many ConÅ¿iderable Parts of the World, volume XXIII, page 1,392:One of the Hexagon Areæ of a Frog’s Lungs, which were not Å¿o much diÅ¿tended by Inflation, as thoÅ¿e parts of the Lungs repreÅ¿ented in the two former Figures 3 and 4, whereby the little Areæ or Cells in the InterÅ¿tices of the extremities of the Veins and Arteries appear cloÅ¿er and leÅ¿s than in the two foregoing Figures, tho viewed by the Å¿ame MicroÅ¿cope.
      • 1796 CE, The Critical Review, or, Annals of Literature, volume XVIII, page 278:MuÅ¿cular motion is Å¿uppoÅ¿ed to depend on this Å¿erpentine effect, on the muÅ¿cular fibres ; for as theÅ¿e fibres, or Å¿mall arteries, are connected to each other by reticular Å¿ubÅ¿tance laterally ; and as their areæ are increaÅ¿ed both in length and diameter, they muÅ¿t be neceÅ¿Å¿arily Å¿hortened by diÅ¿tenÅ¿ion.
      • 1907 CE, Henrietta Anne Heathorn Huxley, Aphorisms and Reflections, CXCIX [C. E. viii 53]:In certain parts of the sea bottom in the immediate vicinity of the British Islands, as in the Clyde district, among the Hebrides, in the Moray Firth, and in the German Ocean, there are depressed areæ, forming a kind of submarine valleys, the centres of which are from 80 to 100 fathoms, or more, deep.
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