Usually means: Covered or extended across area.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. spanned: Merriam-Webster
  2. spanned: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spanned: Collins English Dictionary
  4. spanned: Vocabulary.com
  5. Spanned, spanned: Wordnik
  6. spanned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. spanned: Wiktionary
  8. spanned: Dictionary.com
  9. spanned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Spanned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Spanned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. spanned: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. spanned: FreeDictionary.org
  14. spanned: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spanned: Legal dictionary
  2. spanned: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spanned: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (SPAN)

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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