span

noun

The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.
(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.
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 something.
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.

verb

To extend through the distance between or across.
The suspension bridge spanned the canyon.
To extend through (a time period).
The novel spans three centuries.
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
To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
To be matched, as horses.
To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

verb

To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.
I spun myself around a few times.
To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together.
They spin the cotton into thread.
To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance.
(of a bowler) To make the ball move sideways when it bounces on the pitch.
(of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
To form into thin strips or ribbons, as with sugar
To form (a web, a cocoon, silk, etc.) from threads produced by the extrusion of a viscid, transparent liquid, which hardens on coming into contact with the air; said of the spider, the silkworm, etc.
To shape, as malleable sheet metal, into a hollow form, by bending or buckling it by pressing against it with a smooth hand tool or roller while the metal revolves, as in a lathe.
To move swiftly.
to spin along the road in a carriage, on a bicycle, etc.
To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet.
Blood spins from a vein.
To wait in a loop until some condition becomes true.
To play (vinyl records, etc.) as a disc jockey.
To use an exercise bicycle, especially as part of a gym class.
An abnormal condition in journal bearings where the bearing seizes to the shaft that is rotating and rotates inside the journal, destroying both the shaft and the journal.

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