are

Description: A unit of area equal to 100 square meters (10² m²) using the current, or one of the historical, definitions of the SI units.

The are unit appears in the International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) defined as "1 a = 1 dam² = 10² m²" with the footnote "This unit and its symbol were adopted by the International Committee in 1879 (Proces-Verbaux C.I.P.M., 1879, p. 41)."

The are unit was implicitly redefined via the redefinition of the metre at the 17th CGPM meeting (1983), resolution 1.

This is a generalized definition taken to reference the current, or one of the historical, SI unit definitions. This definition is intended for situations when it is not possible to be more precise, e.g., in contexts where data have been collected that uses different historical SI definitions.

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    "description": "A unit of area equal to 100 square meters (10\u00b2 m\u00b2) using the current, or one of the historical, definitions of the SI units.\n\nThe are unit appears in the International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) defined as \"1 a = 1 dam\u00b2 = 10\u00b2 m\u00b2\" with the footnote \"This unit and its symbol were adopted by the International Committee in 1879 (Proces-Verbaux C.I.P.M., 1879, p. 41).\"\n\n- The International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) categorizes the unit as \"units in use temporarily\".\n- The International System of Units (SI), 5th ed. (1985) adds the clarification that the unit is \"used to express agrarian areas.\"\n- The International System of Units (SI), 7th ed. (1998) changes the categorization to \"Other non-SI units currently accepted for use with the International System.\"\n- The International System of Units (SI), 8th ed. (2006) completely removes the unit (but still defines the hectare).\n\nThe are unit was implicitly redefined via the redefinition of the metre at the 17th CGPM meeting (1983), resolution 1.\n\nThis is a generalized definition taken to reference the current, or one of the historical, SI unit definitions.\nThis definition is intended for situations when it is not possible to be more precise, e.g., in contexts where data have been collected that uses different historical SI definitions.",
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are, a (unit)