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Imperial unit and U.S. customary unit of area From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 and partially in 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.
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Unit system | Imperial, United States customary units |
Unit of | area |
Symbol | ft2, sq ft |
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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]
1 square foot conversion to other units of area:
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