Area

  Area - One of ten administrative field units that are divided into customer service support, operations support, finance, human resources, and sales. Each area is responsible for airport mail centers/facilities, bulk mail centers/facilities, customer service districts, mail transportation equipment centers, post offices, processing and distribution centers/facilities, remote encoding centers, and vehicle maintenance facilities. (Compare with headquarters.)

[Category=Postal ]

Source: USPS, 28 August 2009 10:11:55, http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub32/pub32a_g.html

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area - 

(1) [Euclidean geometry] A closed, two-dimensional shape defined by its boundary or by a contiguous set of raster cells.

(2) [Euclidean geometry] A calculation of the size of a two-dimensional feature, measured in square units.

[Category=Geospatial ]

Source: esri, 20 January 2012 08:15:02, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation