Definiciones
1.NounThe 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.
2.NounAny 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.
3.NounA small space or a brief portion of time."He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes."
4.NounA portion of something by length; a subsequence.
5.NounThe spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
6.NounThe length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
7.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.
8.NounA pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
9.NounThe space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
10.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.
11.Nounwingspan of a plane or bird
12.VerbTo extend across (a gap or space between two sides)."The suspension bridge spanned the canyon."
13.VerbTo cover or extend over (an area or distance)."The parking lot spans three acres.; The forest spans the entire valley."
14.Verb(transitive) To extend through (a period of time)."The novel spans three centuries.; His career spanned five decades."
15.VerbTo 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"
16.VerbTo generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
17.VerbTo be matched, as horses.
18.VerbTo fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
19.Verbsimple past of spin