What is the meaning of Span?

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.

Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches formingfathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.

A small space or a brief portion of time.

A portion of something by length; a subsequence.

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 length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.

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.

A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.

The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.

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.

wingspan of a plane or bird

To extend through the distance between or across.

To extend through (a time period).

To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.

To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.

To be matched, as horses.

To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

simple past of spin

a span, a team (pair or larger team of draught animals)

a cart or instrument with a team of draught animals

a romantic pair, couple

span (distance between extended thumb and little finger)

span (interval of space or time)

inflection of spannen:

  1. first-person singular present indicative
  2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
  3. imperative

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

imperative

hurry, haste

induction

Alternative form of spanne

exciting

angry, displeased

busy, crowded

tight, taut

tense, stressed

loaded, crammed

(of a projectile weapon) loaded, armed

tension

excitement

to stretch out

to tighten

to crowd

to suffer stress, to be agitated

to be exciting

(of a projectile weapon) to load, to arm

an act of spying (something)

stakeout

span, team (pair of draught animals in a team)

pair, couple

Source: wiktionary.org