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Acre vs Acro - What's the difference?

acre | acro |

As adjectives the difference between acre and acro

is that acre is acrid, bitter while acro is of or pertaining to something that combines acrobatic elements with that of something else.

acre

English

(wikipedia acre)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A field.
  • A unit of surface area (symbol'' a. ''or ac.), originally as much as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day; later defined as an area 1 chain (22 yd) by 1 furlong (220 yd), or 4,840 square yards. Equivalent to about 4,046.86 square metres.
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
  • A large amount (of area).
  • Derived terms

    * acre foot * God's acre

    See also

    * international acre * US survey acre * *

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    acro

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • of or pertaining to something that combines acrobatic elements with that of something else.
  • Derived terms

    * acro dance * acro yoga ----