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abbreviation "ha"

English translation: Hectare (English) / Hektar (Swedish)

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Swedish term or phrase:abbreviation (ha)
English translation:Hectare (English) / Hektar (Swedish)
Entered by: Paula Ibbotson

11:23 Dec 2, 2002
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Architecture / Architecture
Swedish term or phrase: abbreviation "ha"
Architecture, the area is ca 10 "ha"--What does this abbreviation stand for, in Swedish and in English?
klorentzon
Local time: 02:55
Hectare (English) / Hektar (Swedish)
Explanation:
As you asked for this both in Swedish and English, I am just putting in a note to distinguish the two (as both of the above are correct).

As you asked this in regards to architecture, I would note that 10,000 square meters is the equivalent of 1 hectare (if using the metric system as one would in Sweden and in my native country Canada).

Note, however, often farmland is referred to as acres, in which case a hectare is 2.741 acres (US and in Canada's countryside).


ENGLISH DEFINITION:
hectare

\Hec"tare`\, n. [F., fr. Gr. ? hundred + F. are an are.] A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


hectare

n : (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)



SWEDISH DEFINITION

hektar [hekt'a:r] hektaret hektar hektaren noun
ett ytmått (=10 000 kvadratmeter)
a measurement - 10,000 square meters.
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Paula Ibbotson
Canada
Local time: 20:55
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4Hectare
Pieter_H
5 +1Hectare (English) / Hektar (Swedish)
Paula Ibbotson
4 +1Hektar
Ingar A. Milnes


  

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38 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Hectare


Explanation:
"ha" is the expression for a square surface of 100 by 100 meters.




HTH,

Piet

Pieter_H
Norway
Local time: 02:55
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in NorwegianNorwegian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Anette Herbert
7 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  Paul Svensson
8 hrs
agree  Paula Ibbotson: This is the term in English.
11 hrs
agree  nattash
11 hrs
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40 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Hektar


Explanation:
A field of 100 by 100 metres, corresponding to 100 Ares, which are then 10 by 10 metres each (convert into acres: 1 acre = 4047 square metres, one ha = 10 000 square metres)

Ingar A. Milnes
Local time: 02:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in NorwegianNorwegian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paula Ibbotson: And this is the Swedish term!
11 hrs
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Hectare (English) / Hektar (Swedish)


Explanation:
As you asked for this both in Swedish and English, I am just putting in a note to distinguish the two (as both of the above are correct).

As you asked this in regards to architecture, I would note that 10,000 square meters is the equivalent of 1 hectare (if using the metric system as one would in Sweden and in my native country Canada).

Note, however, often farmland is referred to as acres, in which case a hectare is 2.741 acres (US and in Canada's countryside).


ENGLISH DEFINITION:
hectare

\Hec"tare`\, n. [F., fr. Gr. ? hundred + F. are an are.] A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


hectare

n : (abbreviated `ha') a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares (or 10,000 square meters)



SWEDISH DEFINITION

hektar [hekt'a:r] hektaret hektar hektaren noun
ett ytmått (=10 000 kvadratmeter)
a measurement - 10,000 square meters.


    Reference: http://www-lexikon.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/skolverket/swe-eng
    Reference: http://www.dictionary.com
Paula Ibbotson
Canada
Local time: 20:55
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Mario Marcolin
5 hrs
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