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▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  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.
▸ noun:  (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
▸ noun:  A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
▸ noun:  (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
▸ noun:  (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
▸ noun:  (nautical) 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.
▸ noun:  (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
▸ noun:  (computing) 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.
▸ noun:  wingspan of a plane or bird
▸ verb:  (transitive) To extend through the distance between or across.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To extend through (a time period).
▸ verb:  (transitive) To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
▸ verb:  (mathematics) To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, US, dated) To be matched, as horses.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  Acronym of Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network.
▸ noun:  (computing) Acronym of Switched Port Analyzer, a Cisco technology

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