Spanning may refer to: *

Disc spanning Disc spanning is a feature of CD and DVD burning software that automatically spreads a large amount of data across many data discs if the data set's size exceeds the storage capacity of an individual blank disc. The advantage is that the user doe ...

, a feature of CD and DVD burning software *

File spanning {{Redir, Binary spanning, the mathematical optimization method, Binary splitting File spanning is the ability to package a single file or data stream into separate files of a specified size. This task implies the ability to re-combine the package ...

, the ability to package a single file or data stream into separate files of a specified size * Linear spanning, a concept in abstract algebra

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