noun🔗ShareThe space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom."My outstretched hand spanned nine inches. "bodynauticalspaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time."He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes."timegapperiodChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA portion of something by length; a subsequence."The old wooden bridge was reinforced with steel spans to make it safer. "partamountspacetimeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports."The bridge's spans are so long that it takes several minutes to drive across. "architecturebuildingtechnicalstructureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports."The electrician measured the spans of cable between each light fixture to ensure they were all equal. "technicalutilityarchitecturebuildingstructureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA 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."The carpenter used the rope spans to lift the heavy beam. "nauticalsailingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action."The farmer hitched two horses, a matching span of chestnut geldings, to the plow. "animalvehicleagricultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe space of all linear combinations of something.""The spans of two vectors can create an entire plane, allowing you to reach any point within it." "mathspaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps."The spans of the project's dependencies, when optimized for maximum parallelism, revealed that the quickest possible completion time was only two days. "computingmathtechnicaltimeprocessstructureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo extend through the distance between or across."The suspension bridge spanned the canyon."areageographyspaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo extend through (a time period)."The novel spans three centuries."timeperiodhistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo 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"bodyactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo generate an entire space by means of linear combinations."The two vectors, (1,0) and (0,1), spans the entire 2D plane, meaning any point on the plane can be reached by adding scaled versions of those two vectors. "mathspaceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo be matched, as horses."The farmer ensured the two horses that pulled the plow spans each other, with equal height and strength, for efficient work. "animalvehicleChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo fetter, as a horse; to hobble."The rancher spans the horse's front legs to prevent it from running away too far while grazing. "animalagricultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
