span
see also: SPAN
Pronunciation Noun
SPAN
Proper noun
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see also: SPAN
Pronunciation Noun
span (plural spans)
- The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.
- 1738, Alexander Pope, The Universal Prayer:
- Yet not to earth's contracted span / Thy goodness let me bound.
- Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy.
- 2007. Zerzan, John. Silence.
- The unsilent present is a time of evaporating attention spans,
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- 2004, Robert Harris, Robert Warner, The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace (page 759)
- For example, in OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word, each span of text can have a style that defines key characteristics about the text: • What font it uses • Whether it's normal, bolded, italicized, […]
- 2004, Robert Harris, Robert Warner, The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace (page 759)
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- (nautical) A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of something.
- Russian: пролёт
- Portuguese: espaço gerado
span (spans, present participle spanning; past and past participle spanned)
- (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
- The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.
- The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry.
- (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
- The parking lot spans three acres.
- The novel spans three centuries.
- (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
- to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder
- Bible, Isa. xiviii. 13
- My right hand hath spanned the heavens.
- (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
- (intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
- (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
- French: couvrir, chevaucher
- Italian: coprire
- Spanish: cubrir
- (archaic, nonstandard) simple past tense of spin
- 1891, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “How Hall of Lithdale Took Tidings to Iceland”, in Eric Brighteyes, 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., OCLC 935241280 ↗, page 204 ↗:
- So they went in to where Gudruda sat spinning in the hall, singing as she span.
SPAN
Proper noun
- Acronym of Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network
- (computing) Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology
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