Square foot
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| Unit system | Imperial, United States customary units |
| Unit of | area |
| Symbol | ft2, sq ft |
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The square foot (pl. square feet; abbreviated sq ft, sf, or ft2; also denoted by ´2 and ⏍) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Hong Kong.[citation needed] It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot.
Although the pluralization is regular in the noun form, when used as an adjective, the singular is preferred. So, an apartment measuring 700 square feet could be described as a 700 square-foot apartment.[citation needed] This corresponds to common linguistic usage of foot.
The square foot unit is commonly used in real estate.[1] Dimensions are generally taken with a laser device, the latest in a long line of tools used to gauge the size of apartments[2] or other spaces. Real estate agents often measure straight corner-to-corner, then deduct non-heated spaces, and add heated spaces whose footprints exceed the end-to-end measurement.[3]
Square foot conversion to other units of area:
- 1⁄27,878,400 ≈ 0.0000000358701 square miles (mi2)
- 1⁄43,560 ≈ 0.000022956341 acre (ac)
- 1⁄9 ≈ 0.111111111111 square yard (yd2)
- 144 square inches (in2)
- 0.000009290304 hectare (ha)
- 0.0009290304 are (a, uncommon)
- 0.09290304 square meters (m2)
- 9.290304 square decimeters (dm2, uncommon)
- 929.0304 square centimeters (cm2)
- 92,903.04 square millimeters (mm2)
See also
[edit]- Area (geometry)
- Conversion of units
- Cubic foot
- Metrication in Canada
- Miscellaneous Technical (Unicode) for a list of miscellaneous technical symbols and fonts which support the square foot symbol ⟨⏍⟩
- Orders of magnitude (area)
- Square (algebra), square root
References
[edit]- ^ "How to Find the Square Feet of Your Office Space". SquareFoot Blog. 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ^ Santora, Marc (2010-12-17). "The Elusive Measure Known as the Square Foot". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
- ^ "Square Foot Calculator | How to Measure Square Feet". Home Improvement Tips & Advice from HomeAdvisor. 2016-01-04. Retrieved 2020-01-14.