Distance from the tip of one limb such as an arm or wing to the tip of the paired limb, or analogically the same measure for airplane wings.
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Examples for "span "
Examples for "span "
1 These so-called 'news talk shows' have the attention span of a gerbil.
2 Yet, how quickly we forget extreme events as the media attention - span wanes.
3 In both cases, however, the projections span a wide range of possibilities.
4 The SEC and DOJ probes span the securities industry, the company said.
5 However, they couldn't brainwash him because his attention span was too short.
1 The gently bowed form also hides a few inches from its wingspan .
2 One contained a perfectly preserved moth with a wingspan over four inches.
3 With a 140-foot wingspan , it's the largest all-carbon composite aircraft ever built.
4 Their bodies were huge, with a wingspan of five feet or more.
5 Around the summit glides an Andean condor, never flapping its 11-foot wingspan .
1 The fog thickened, till the world drowned in red an armspan all around.
2 Water churned black and frothing an armspan from their feet.
3 She indicated an armspan , flashlight flickering across the ceiling and, for a moment, out into the Main Junction.
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