noun

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The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.

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(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.

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He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.

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A portion of something by length; a subsequence.

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The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.

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The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.

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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.

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A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.

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The space of all linear combinations of something.

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The 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.

verb

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To extend through the distance between or across.

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The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.

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To extend through (a time period).

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The novel spans three centuries.

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To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.

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to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder

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To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.

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To be matched, as horses.

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To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

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