Meaning of span | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network.
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2. The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
3. A surname.
4. Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology.
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5. Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
6. A small space or a brief portion of time.
   broadly
7. A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
8. The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
9. The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
10. 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.
11. A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
    Canada, US
12. The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
13. 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.
14. wingspan of a plane or bird

Equivalents

Examples

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

“"Why in ten thousand years scarce will the rain⟳ and storms lessen⟳ a mountain top by a span in thickness?"”

“Yet not to Earth's contracted Span, Thy Goodneſs let⟳ me bound; […]”

“Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy⟳.”

“The unsilent present⟳ is a time of evaporating attention spans,”

“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, […]”

“The force⟳ of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges.”

“We use⟳ the term span (also called depth, or dependence depth) to refer⟳ to the number⟳ of parallel steps assuming an unbounded number⟳ of processors.”

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