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Pronunciation guide for span
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of span with real speech in context.
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- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Can't Remember What I Forgot
test called digit span where you have to
- Definition summary
- 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.
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How to pronounce span
Can't Remember What I Forgot
test called digit span where you have to
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “span”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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.
- 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.
- (by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.
- A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
- (architecture, construction) The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
- (architecture, construction) The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
- (nautical) 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.
- (US, Canada) A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
- (mathematics) The space of all linear combinations of vectors within a set.
- (computing) 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
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