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sort according to size
the actual state of affairs; "thats the size of the situation"; "she hates me, thats about the size of it" (同)size of it
any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; "size gives body to a fabric" (同)sizing
make to a size; bring to a suitable size
a large magnitude; "he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"; "the only city of any size in that area"
the physical magnitude of something (how big it is); "a wolf is about the size of a large dog"
the property resulting from being one of a series of graduated measurements (as of clothing); "he wears a size 13 shoe"
(used in combination) sized; "the economy-size package"; "average-size house"
cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
small room in which a monk or nun lives (同)cubicle
a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction (同)electric cell
a room where a prisoner is kept (同)jail cell, prison cell
(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals
any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb"
a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement (同)cadre
having the surface treated or coated with sizing
having a specified size

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〈U〉〈C〉(人や物の)『大きさ』 / 〈U〉大きいこと / 〈U〉数量,規模 / 〈C〉(帽子・靴・シャツなどの)『サイズ』,『寸法』,型 / 〈U〉《話》実情,真相 / …‘を'大きさ(寸法)によって分類する / …‘を'ある寸法に作る
サイズ,どうさ(紙や織物の細孔(こう)をふさぐ材料) / …‘に'サイズを塗る
(刑務所の)『独房』;(修道院の)小さい独居室 / (ミツバチの)みつ房,巣穴 / 小さい部屋 / 『細胞』 / 電池 / 花粉室 / (共産党などの)細胞
サイズ(どうさ)を塗ること,のり付け;サイズ剤,のり剤,どうさ
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The surface-area-to-volume ratio also called the surface-to-volume ratio and variously denoted sa/vol or SA:V, is the amount of surface area per unit volume of an object or collection of objects. The surface-area-to-volume ratio is measured in units of inverse distance. A cube with sides of length a will have a surface area of 6a² and a volume of a³. The surface to volume ratio for a cube is thus shown as .

For a given shape, SA:V is inversely proportional to size. A cube 2 m on a side has a ratio of 3 m⁻¹, half that of a cube 1 m on a side. On the converse, preserving SA:V as size increases requires changing to a less compact shape.

Physical chemistry

In involving a solid material, the surface-area-to-volume is an important factor for the reactivity, that is, the rate at which the chemical reaction will proceed. Materials with large surface area to volume ratios (e.g., very small diameter, or very porous or otherwise not compact) react at much faster rates than monolithic materials, because more surface is available to react. Examples include grain dust; while grain is not typically flammable, grain dust is explosive. Finely ground salt dissolves much more quickly than coarse salt. It is same-case-applicable to a multiparticulate system or any system that has a surface coating, a very important parameter to be consider while performing coating for pharmaceutical solid oral-dosage form.

High surface-area-to-volume ratio provides a strong "driving force" to speed up thermodynamic processes that minimize thermodynamic free energy.

Biology

The ratio between the surface area and volume of cells and organisms has an enormous impact on their biology. For example, many aquatic microorganisms have increased surface area to increase their drag in the water. This reduces their rate of sink and allows them to remain near the surface with less energy expenditure. Humans and other large animals cannot rely on diffusion for absorption and ejection of respiratory gases for their whole body; however, animals such as flatworms and leeches can, as they have more surface area per unit volume. For similar reasons, surface to volume ratio places a maximum limit on the size of a cell.

An increased surface area to volume ratio also means increased exposure to the environment. The many tentacles of jellyfish and anemones provide increased surface area for the acquisition of food. Greater surface area allows more of the surrounding water to be sifted for nutrients.

Individual organs in animals are often shaped by requirements of surface area to volume ratio. The numerous internal branchings of the lung increase the surface area through which oxygen is passed into the blood and carbon dioxide is released from the blood. The intestine has a finely wrinkled internal surface, increasing the area through which nutrients are absorbed by the body.

Smaller single celled organisms have a high surface area to volume ratio, which allows them to rely on oxygen and material diffusing into the cell (and wastes diffusing out) in order to survive. The higher the SA:Volume ratio they have, the more effective this process can be. Larger animals require specialized organs (lungs, kidneys, intestines, etc.) that effectively increase the surface area available for exchange processes, and a circulatory system to move material and heat energy between the surface and the core of the organism.

A wide and thin cell, such as a nerve cell, or one with membrane protrusions such as microvilli has a greater surface-area-to-volume ratio than a spheroidal one. Likewise a worm has proportionately more surface area than a rounder organism of the same mass does.

Increased surface area can also lead to biological problems. King Kong, the fictional giant gorilla, would have insufficient lung surface area to meet his oxygen needs, and could not survive. For small organisms with their high surface:volume ratio, friction and fluid dynamics (wind, water flow) are relatively much more important, and gravity much less important, than for large animals.

High surface-area-to-volume ratios also present problems of temperature control in unfavorable environments. More contact with the environment through the surface of a cell or an organ (relative to its volume) increases loss of water and dissolved substances for small organisms. Being large helps endotherms ("warm-blooded" animals) to maintain body temperatures different from their surroundings. This is a basis for Bergmann's rule, whereby in a group of closely related animal species, those at higher latitudes are larger than those the live nearer to the equator. But small organisms have a hard time keeping cooler than their surroundings, which is probably part of why small desert mammals are nocturnal, and some large mammals (hippos, elephants, rhinos, large ungulates) are well adapted to tropical environments.

Similar principles apply to plants, which is part of why succulent plants such as cacti, some euphorbs, and others are well-suited to hot dry conditions (there are additional, physiological reasons, including Crassulacean acid metabolism). Tiny leaves on some desert plants (creosote bush, acacias, palo verde, many shrubs) allows those leaves to shed heat by conduction and convection, reducing the need for cooling by evaporation of water (transpiration) (Nobel, 2009).

Examples

Shape	Length	SA/V ratio for unit volume
Tetrahedron	side	7.21
Cube	side	6
Octahedron	side	5.72
Dodecahedron	side	5.31
Icosahedron	side	5.148
Sphere	radius	4.836

Example of Cubes of varying size
Side	Area of Face	Total Surface Area	Volume of Cube	Surface Area to Volume Ratio
1 m	1 m²	6 m²	1 m³	6.0 m⁻¹ (or m²•m⁻³)
2 m	4 m²	24 m²	8 m³	3.0 m⁻¹
4 m	16 m²	96 m²	64 m³	1.5 m⁻¹
6 m	36 m²	216 m²	216 m³	1.0 m⁻¹
8 m	64 m²	384 m²	512 m³	0.75 m⁻¹
12 m	144 m²	864 m²	1728 m³	0.5 m⁻¹
20 m	400 m²	2400 m²	8000 m³	0.3 m⁻¹

References

Nobel, P.S. (2009). Physicochemical and Environmental Plant Physiology. Oxford, UK: Academic Press.
Schmidt-Nielsen, K (1984). Scaling: Why is Animal Size so Important?. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Vogel, S (1988). Life's Devices: The Physical World of Animals and Plants. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

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Sizes of Organisms: The Surface Area:Volume Ratio

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