Synonyms for
span
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.
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All Definitions for Span

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1The 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.
2Any 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.
3A small space or a brief portion of time.
4A portion of something by length
5A subsequence.
6The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
7The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
8A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight
9Also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
10A pair of horses or other animals driven together
11Usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
12The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
13The 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.
14Wingspan of a plane or bird
15To extend through the distance between or across.
16To extend through (a time period).
17To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
18To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
19To be matched, as horses.
20To fetter, as a horse
21To hobble.
22A surname.
23Acronym of Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network.
24Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology.

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About synonyms for span

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