span
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3.1
- noun
- /spæn/
:
lapso
- The time frame and action steps will be repeated over the span of three school years.
- a span of time
- attention span
- life span
And taking that across a span of several days, weeks, months.
- And taking that across a span of several days, weeks, months.
- We need to do all this in a span of say, a couple decades.
- We need to do all this in a span of, let's say, a couple decades.
- Yeah, but our health span is deteriorating all the while.
- I've seen the, the time span or the lifespan of, of these sort of things.
- That was one of the most insane, like two week spans of my life.
- Come on, a span I would barely call it that.
- He has changed so much in the span of this year.
- That's what you are just compared to the span of your life.
- So already there's a vast span of time.
- You can always rescue some of your health and health span and lifespan.
- And that is so much change in an unbelievably short span of time.
- He was like, yo, the attention span ain't there.
- And when we think about lifespan, we think about health span and then we finally think about muscle span.
- So how did Wirecard go from investor darling to disaster in the span of just one week?
- So there are four note name span CDEF.
Examples
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This is part of the span between health and illness.
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Now, in a span of 100 years, indeed in the space of one human lifetime, the extinction of life on Earth is a reality.
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And taking that across a span of several days, weeks, months.
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We need to do all this in a span of say, a couple decades.
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You have agreed to give her the span of a day and a night.
Fiction book (1993) -
A single customer may have multiple machines with an age span of at least ten years.
Academic text (1999) -
The results reflected a wide span in knowledge level, from little to extraordinary and everything in between.
Academic text (2013) -
Yeah, but our health span is deteriorating all the while.
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So already there's a vast span of time.
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The bridge was built to span a distance of 500 feet across the river.
Synonyms
∞
2.1
A length of time with a clear start and end, like a class or game segment
381
3.1
A period of time between two events
86
2.9
A long period between two events
15
2.9
Space between two objects
4
3.3
A period between two events that you can measure
1
3.4
A period of time between a start and an end
1
6.8
A space between two things
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How Long
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Etymology
Span comes from an old English word spannan meaning 'to stretch'. Think of a space or time that is stretched out between two points, like a bird's wingspan or the short 'span' of an hour.