spans

noun

1
The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.
2
(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
“He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.”
3
A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
4
The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
5
The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
6
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.
7
A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
8
The space of all linear combinations of something.
9
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.

1
To extend through the distance between or across.
“The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.”
2
To extend through (a time period).
“The novel spans three centuries.”
3
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”
4
To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
5
To be matched, as horses.
6
To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

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