area (nom)
Sens 1 : a
particular extent of space or surface or one serving a special
function. [source : MW]
Contextes :
- Most importantly however, regional growth industries, such as
science and technology, are concentrated in other nodes, especially
the Torrey Pines Mesa area.
- The best way to avoid the confounding effects of chance is to
sample "over a large geographic area that follows geographically
complex environmental variation" (ibid.: 57).
- The first of these was the question of whether the mid to late
19th-century western United States, as a less "civilized" area of the
country, allowed women more societal freedoms than the eastern United
States, and by extension, whether prostitutes enjoyed greater social
acceptance or other benefits that they might not have had
elsewhere.
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Sens 2 : the scope of a concept,
operation, or activity: field. [source : MW]
Contextes :
- It has been used as a component of many successful, multi-faceted
behavior change programs in a wide range of areas.
- While this is a good start for the research in this area, the DOI
model does not take the environment into account and this model
usually results in undetermined and abrupt changes of range values in
all directions.
- Commanders commanded the men, but political officers led the men
in the areas of morale and discipline.