Span may refer to:
Science, technology and engineering
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Span (unit)
A span is the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the little finger. In ancient times, a span was considered to be half a cubit. Sometimes the distinction is made between the great span or full span (thumb t ...
, the width of a human hand
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Span (engineering)
Span is the distance between two intermediate supports for a structure, e.g. a beam or a bridge
A bridge is a structure built to span a physical obstacle (such as a body of water, valley, road, or rail) without blocking the way underneath. ...
, a section between two intermediate supports
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Wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan ...
, the distance between the wingtips of a bird or aircraft
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Sorbitan ester
Sorbitan is a mixture of isomeric organic compounds derived from the dehydration of sorbitol and is an intermediate in the conversion of sorbitol to isosorbide. Sorbitan is primarily used in the production of surfactants such as polysorbates; whic ...
s, also known as a spans
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Nebbiolo
Nebbiolo (, ; pms, nebieul ) is an Italian red wine grape variety predominantly associated with its native Piedmont region, where it makes the '' Denominazione di Origine Controllata e Garantita'' (DOCG) wines of Barolo, Barbaresco, Roero, ...
, an Italian wine grape also known as Span
Mathematics
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Linear span
In mathematics, the linear span (also called the linear hull or just span) of a set of vectors (from a vector space), denoted , pp. 29-30, §§ 2.5, 2.8 is defined as the set of all linear combinations of the vectors in . It can be characteri ...
, or simply span, in linear algebra
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Span (category theory)
Computing
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, an HTML element; See
span and div
In HTML, div and span tags are elements used to define parts of a document, so that they are identifiable when a unique classification is necessary. Where other HTML elements such as p (paragraph), em (emphasis), and so on, accurately represen ...
* Switched Port Analyzer, Cisco implementation of
port mirroring
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Smartphone ad hoc network
* Critical path length in
analysis of parallel algorithms
In computer science, the analysis of parallel algorithms is the process of finding the computational complexity of algorithms executed in parallel – the amount of time, storage, or other resources needed to execute them. In many respects, analysi ...
Other uses
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Span (band), a Norwegian rock band
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''SPAN'' magazine, a publication of the US Embassy, New Delhi, India; see former editor
V. D. Trivadi
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Saudi Payments Network
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CME SPAN The Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk, or SPAN, is a system for calculating margin requirements for futures and options on futures. It was developed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) (often called "the Ch ...
, Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk, for futures contracts
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Span Developments, former UK builder
People
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Denard Span (born 1984), a baseball outfielder
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Henrik Span Henrik Span (17 April 1634 - 27 December 1694) was a naval officer in the Dutch, Venetian and DanishTopsøe-Jensen Vol 2 pp 235 - 236
services. He reached the rank of Admiral in the Royal Danish Navy in 1683 and headed the Royal Danish Naval Dock ...
Danish shipbuilder and admiral (1634 - 1694)
* ''Span.'', taxonomic author abbreviation of
Johan Baptist Spanoghe (1798–1838), Dutch botanical collector
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