interarea

Between areas.

Adjective

  1. Between areas.
    • It is shown that an improvement of interarea transport facilities may encourage trade and as a consequence decrease the disparity in area size. - 2002, Wei-Bin Zhang, An Economic Theory of Cities, →ISBN, page 16:
    • Finally, as stated earlier, note that these adjustment factors can be used to add back to the characteristics-adjusted indexes the influence of variables that an analyst does not wish to remove in making interarea...
    • Nevertheless, significant interarea differences in patterns of rights creation or in the distribution of property will not be reducible to differences in rates of testacy. - 2014, Toby L. Ditz, Property and Kinship:...

Origin

From inter- + area.

Noun

  1. A typically triangular shelf of shell on some brachiopods that serves as a weight-bearing surface to stabilize the valves.
    • The brachiophore or brachial process is a simple, somewhat flat blade located at the notothyrial margin and underlying the notothyrial edge of the interarea. - 1938, Edward Oscar Ulrich, Gustav Arthur Cooper, Ozarkian...
    • In one sense the interareas, planareas, and palintropes are genetically the same in that they are all surfaces resulting from increment to the posterior margin. - 1942, Preston E. Cloud, Jr., Terebratuloid Brachiopoda...
    • The posterio-lateral socket ridge lies between the socket and the interarea (pl. 2, figs. 9b, 13b, 16b). The posterio-lateral socket ridges are accommodated by grooves in the hinge teeth of concavo-convex species or...
  2. An area where the soil composition differs significantly from the surrounding region.
    • In arranging the data for analyses, all sites that exhibited the behavior of an alkali or saline-alkali soil were grouped together and the panspot designation was used only for the panspot interareas. This was done...
    • Soils in the interareas may be moderately deep and have fair to good vegetal cover ; thus, the rate of water intake on the interareas may be quite high. - 1968, Frank Rauzi, Claude Lee Fly, E. J. Dyksterhuis, Water...
    • The pale-gray and light greenish-gray interareas between the red mottles in Longford clay rocks are composed of the same clay minerals that are present in the mottles. - 1979, Paul C. Franks, Paralic to fluvial record...

Forms

interareas

Derived

pseudointerarea