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The square foot (plural square feet; abbreviated sq. ft, sf, or ft2; also denoted by '2) is an imperial unit and U.S. customary unit (non-SI, non-metric) of area, used mainly in the United States and partially in Canada, the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Ghana, Liberia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Hong Kong. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of 1 foot.
Although the pluralisation is regular in the noun form, when used as an adjective, the singular is preferred. So, a flat measuring 700 square feet could be described as a 700 square-foot flat. This corresponds to common linguistic usage of foot.
Anyone searching for an apartment, buying a house, or preparing to acquire office space must get very used to this form of measurement.[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]
Conversions
1 square foot is equivalent to:
- 1130sq
square inches (sq in)
- 1&fras1;9 square yard (sq yd)
- ≈0.09290304 square meters (symbol: m2)
1 acre is equivalent to 43,560 square feet.
See also
- 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
- ^ "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.