span

Signification (Anglais)

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

• Verb
• Noun
• Noun
• Noun

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Concepts

empan

enjamber

mesure de longueur

brasse

envergure

pont

chevaucher

portée

couvrir

sous-tendre

engendrer

générer

paire

passerelle

pause

période

poutre

poutrelle

quart

4th

susciter

temps

⌚

traverser

TWAIN

dyade

twain

apparier

s'étendre

atteler

balayer

bout

🔚

croix

duo

enfanter

espace

intervalle

joug

lopin

mettre au monde

Synonymes

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

Traductions

spanna

Spanne

Spannweite

palmo

palmo

cuarta

abarcar

campata

braza

Feld

luce

σπιθαμή

larghezza

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/spæn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: spanne

Hérité de ancien anglais: spann

Appartenant à néerlandais: span

Appartenant à allemand: Spanne

Appartenant à ancien anglais: ġespan

Appartenant à néerlandais: gespan

Appartenant à allemand: Gespann

Hérité de moyen anglais: spannen

Hérité de ancien anglais: spannan

Appartenant à allemand: spannen

Appartenant à néerlandais: spannen

Hérité de moyen anglais: 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.

Phrases

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

Cela a commencé une association entre les deux qui s'étendrait sur les dix-huit prochaines années.