span

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. 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. 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. (broadly) A small space or a brief portion of time.
4. A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
5. The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
6. The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
7. 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. (Canada, US) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
9. The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
10. 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.
11. wingspan of a plane or bird

Verb

1. (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
2. (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
3. (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
4. To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
5. (US, dated, intransitive) To be matched, as horses.
6. (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.

Verb

simple past of spin

spin

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Conceptos

palmo

abarcar

cuarta

espacio

luz

envergadura

braza

jeme

pareja

👫

ojo

👁️

intervalo

tramo

yunta

ojo del puente o de un arco

dar a luz

extensión

par

parir

pausa

puente

tronco

uncir

vano

viga

lapso

Sinónimos

bridge

period

stretch

duration

fathom

interval

straddle

yoke

cross

spread

brace

range

cover

space

wingspan

wingspread

traverse

sweep

age

pair

length

generate

extend

distance

couple

👫

extent

hand span

twain

2

term

twosome

reach

run

lifetime

knot

🪢

leash

gap

dyad

encompass

duet

duad

duo

bear

🐻

couplet

distich

step

bury

bunch

bay

building

brood

Traducciones

spanna

Spanne

empan

Spannweite

enjamber

palmo

campata

periodo

larghezza

luce

Feld

brasse

σπιθαμή

mesure de longueur

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/spæn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: spanne

Heredado de inglés antiguo: spann

Cognado con neerlandés: span

Cognado con alemán: Spanne

Cognado con inglés antiguo: ġespan

Cognado con neerlandés: gespan

Cognado con alemán: Gespann

Heredado de inglés medio: spannen

Heredado de inglés antiguo: spannan

Cognado con alemán: spannen

Cognado con neerlandés: spannen

Heredado de inglés medio: span

In summary

From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with Dutch span, spanne, German Spanne. The sense “pair of horses” is probably from Old English ġespan, ġespann (“a joining; a fastening together; clasp; yoke”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. Cognate with Dutch gespan, German Gespann.

Oraciones

This began an association between the two that would span the next eighteen years .

Esto comenzó una asociación entre los dos que abarcarían los próximos dieciocho años.