English Dictionary

span

IPA（発音記号）

/spæn/

名詞

広義 カナダ英語 アメリカ英語

The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom. / (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.

日本語の意味

伸ばした手のひら（親指から小指先まで）の長さ、またはその幅 / 限られたごく短い空間または短時間

She measured the span of her hand to see if she could reach the piano keys comfortably.

彼女はピアノの鍵に楽に届くかどうかを確かめるため、親指から小指の先までの幅を測った。

意味（1）

The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.

Why in ten thousand years scarce will the rain and storms lessen a mountain top by a span in thickness?

意味（2）

(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.

He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.

意味（3）

A portion of something by length; a subsequence.

For example, in OpenOffice.org or Microsoft Word, each span of text can have a style that defines key characteristics about the text: • What font it uses • Whether it's normal, bolded, italicized, […]

意味（4）

(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.

The force of the explosion demolished one pair of piers and two spans of the bridge crashed down into the river on top of the barges.

意味（5）

(architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.

意味（6）

(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.

意味（7）

(US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.

意味（8）

(mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of something.

意味（9）

(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.

We use the term span (also called depth, or dependence depth) to refer to the number of parallel steps assuming an unbounded number of processors.

意味（10）

wingspan of a plane or bird

spans （ plural ）