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