PASCALS, for example, measure the pressure applied to a certain area.

比如，帕斯卡是用来测量某处面积所受压力的单位。

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This is a measure of the number of bits of data that can be stored on a given surface area of the disk.

这是测量可能存储在磁盘一面的数据位数的指标。

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Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers were also able to measure the surface area of the primary visual cortex in each volunteer.

研究人可通过功能磁共振成像（FMRI）来测量每个志愿者脑部的初级视觉表皮层大小。

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Moreover, using a stain in this way meant they could automate the process by attaching a camera to the microscope, taking photographs of all 384 wells, and feeding the images into a computer that had been programmed to measure the area of orange in a well and contrast that with the total area occupied by worms.

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Try to measure the area of a Frisbee disc with wooden blocks and the answer is pretty coarse, but do the same thing with 10 billion grains of sand and you can get pretty damn accurate.

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