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1. isim 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.
2. isim Any 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. isim A small space or a brief portion of time.

   “He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.”

4. isim A portion of something by length; a subsequence.

   “For example, in OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word, each span of text can have a style that defines key characteristics about the text: • What font it uses • Whether it's normal, bolded, italicized, […]”

5. isim The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.

   “The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges.”

6. isim The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
7. isim 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.
8. isim A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
9. isim The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
10. isim 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.

    “We use the term span (also called depth, or dependence depth) to refer to the number of parallel steps assuming an unbounded number of processors.”

11. isim wingspan of a plane or bird
12. fiil To extend across (a gap or space between two sides).

    “The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.”

13. fiil To cover or extend over (an area or distance).

    “The parking lot spans three acres.”

14. fiil To extend through (a period of time).

    “The novel spans three centuries.”

15. fiil 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”

16. fiil To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
17. fiil To be matched, as horses.
18. fiil To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

    “We spanned the dogs high up a corrie to the south of the ridge […]”

19. fiil simple past of spin

    “But when Adam delued, and Eue ſpan, VVho was then a Gentleman?”

20. özel isim A surname.
21. özel isim Acronym of Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network.
22. özel isim Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology.