span
The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little…The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
» Young children have short attention spans.
Kleine Kinder haben eine sehr kurze Aufmerksamkeitsspanne.
У маленьких детей очень плохая концентрация внимания
Meaning
11 sensesThe full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
Spanne
пядьpjadʹ
п'ядьpʺjadʹ
(broadly)A small space or a brief portion of time.
He has a short attention span and gets bored within minutes.
пери́одperíod
пері́одperíod
A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
пролётproljót, пролётproljót
перекриття́perekryttjá, перекриття́perekryttjá
The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
the distance or interval between two points
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.
(Canada, US, collective)A pair of horses or other animals driven or sold together; usually, such a pair of horses usually being similar in color, form, and action.
The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
линейная оболочкаlinejnaja oboločka
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.
Wingspan of a plane or bird
Examples
16 sentencesYoung children have short attention spans.
ruУ маленьких детей очень плохая концентрация внимания
deKleine Kinder haben eine sehr kurze Aufmerksamkeitsspanne.
Young children usually have short attention spans.
Children have much shorter attention spans than adults.
deKinder haben eine viel kürzere Aufmerksamkeitsspanne als Erwachsene.
His life spanned nearly a century.
People nowadays have short attention spans.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, haFrom Middle English spanne, from Old English spann, from Proto-Germanic *spannō (“span, handbreadth”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to stretch”).
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