wingspread

Examples

• All

• In the area-swept calculations, it is assumed that the effective width of the net is equivalent to the wingspread.

  Academic text (1994)

• The whole thing had a fifty-yard wingspread.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I'll swear some of them have a wingspread of over three feet.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The estimates of wingspread used prior to 1988 introduced bias into the pollock abundance assessment process because they did not account for the effect of varying scope.

  Academic text (1994)

• These early estimates were based on averages of small numbers of measurements taken in various locations, and for each survey, the mean wingspread for the net aboard each vessel was used to estimate the area swept.

  Academic text (1994)

• Thus, for the greater proportion of pollock catches, net wingspread would have been underestimated and biomass overestimated.

  Academic text (1994)

• This portrait can be enhanced by the student voices in Sarah Long's The New Student Politics: The Wingspread Statement on Student Civic Engagement (2002), which describes contemporary student conceptions of civic engagement and politics.

  Academic text (2006)

• Giasticus bones—that's the bird with a ten-foot tooth and the fifty-foot wingspread, which carries off cows, she said.

  Fiction book (2001)

• The eagle soared through the sky, its impressive wingspread reaching nearly six feet.

• With a wingspread of four feet, the albatross can glide gracefully over the ocean.

Synonyms

W

wingspan

vswingspread

• Specialized

16 3.2

The distance between the tips of a bird's or plane's spread wings

focuses on the same distance but mainly for natural animals like birds and insects

How Large

wingspread

• Specialized

1 7.2

winglet

• Specialized

1 6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology