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Spans

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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📖 Definitions of "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.

verb

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.

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yokenoun	Senses relating to a frame around the neck.
twainnoun	Pair, couple.
duadnoun	A pair or couple.
twosomenoun	A group of two; a pair; a couple; a group of two distinct individuals or components.
dyadnoun	A set of two elements treated as one; a pair.
bridgenoun	A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.
couplenoun	Two partners in a romantic or sexual relationship.
pairnoun	Two similar or identical things taken together; often followed by of.
traverseverb	(climbing) A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
crossnoun	A geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other.
distichnoun	(prosody) A couplet, a two-line stanza making complete sense.
coupletnoun	(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.
duonoun	Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially:
duetnoun	(music) A song composed for and/or performed by a duo.
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addressesnoun	Direction.
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