Area

as an area one calls oneself

• one spatially (usually) connected surface or an area of the earth's surface,
  • also in 3. Dimension to extend can (z. B. Zone of deep air pressure);
  • a national territory or the effective range of a regional administrative body
  • the translation of Oblast, an administrative unitin Russia and the Ukraine;
• a regional delimitation with the selling and/or. Sales (area representative office).
• a containment within a larger technical or coherent topics
  • the sphere of activity of an expert (z. B. To “specialist in economic area "), see department.
• in the topology an open, coherent subset a topological area,
  • see in addition also complexes subset and to function theory.

origin and history

the today's meaning of the term area lead themselves from the verb “order” off, on old high German gibiotan (biotan = offer). An area was therefore the range, over thatitself the command authority, which extended issued requirements or the jurisdiction.

see also:

Wiktionary: Area - word origin, synonyms and translations

• Exklave, enclave, landscape, region, territory
• district, catchment area, district, administrative arrangement
• specialist, master, territorial claim, Sector.

This side is a term clarifying for the distinction of several terms named the same word.