As with many, many terms, the term area has various meanings depending on the context in which it is used.
In a very general and recurring context, it is called an area that space of land comprised between certain pre-established limits.
Secondly, For geometry, an area will be the extension or surface comprised within a two-dimensional figure, which will be expressed in units of measurements called surface areas..
In another area, totally different, such as the biogeography, an area will be called that specific geographical area in which it is recorded or characterized by the presence of a certain species.
Also, in the field of linguistics, the term area has a special participation, known as linguistic area, since it is used to name that group of different languages that over time and as a result of geographical proximity acquired some similarities in terms of their grammatical or phonetic systems. In this case, it is not necessary or vitally important for the aforementioned languages that belong to a linguistic area to have some kind of genetic relationship with each other, in fact, they may have very distant relationships.
Another context in which the term area is widely used is that of sport, especially in soccer, since This is the name of that previously marked and delimited area that is located a few meters from the arch and in which, in the case of football that we mentioned, it is the most sensitive area of all since, for example, if there is a foul on the opponent, it will be severely punished and as appropriate and according to the severity of the injury. mentioned, it can give way to a free kick at the goal of the rival area or materialize in a penalty.
