Spans

What do we mean by spans?

The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; an eighth of a fathom.

(by extension) A small space or a brief portion of time.

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.

The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.

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.

A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.

The space of all linear combinations of something.

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to spans:
spans, span, scans, sans, pans, spins, swans, spars, spas, spank, spawns, spats, spann, spanos, shans, stans, spens, spano, spang, spanks, spains, spads, spns, spons, spams, slans, spass, spani, spana, spane, seans, svans, spand, spangs, soans, spays, spacs, spuns, sprans, spanx, dpans, spaws, spags, spanc, spaes, splns, sapans, spals, spanes, spanz, speans.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word spans:
girder, truss, piers, span, cantilever, viaduct, roadway, octave, arches, bridge, clearance, bridges, width, genres, arch, concrete, deck, pier, amino, chord, inhabitants, longest, decades, latitude, length, duration, connects, feet, metres, reinforced, connecting, carries, acres, steel, swing, note, pairs, generations, membrane, river, timber, saskatchewan, kilometers, commune, urban, creek, counties, spectrum, traffic, wide, rural, continuous, roughly, ago, centuries, areas, entire, columns, constructed, approach, across, vertical.

Words that rhyme with spans:
hands, sans, trans, benz, trans-, plans, banns, hans, glans, cannes, fans, cans, pans, mans, franz, stans, tans, scans, clans, bans, vans, frans, sedans, ganz, caltrans, afghans, manz, gans, lanz, caravans, glanz, magnes, pecans, flans, manns, rans, kranz, vannes, sanz, grans, krans, hannes, rosecrans, crans, jans, japans, mannes, ranz, danz, caftans, kanz, shans, janz, bedpans, talibans, lifespans, klans, minivans, sannes, afghanistans, branz, franze, intertrans, meehans, rosenkrans.

Adjectives that are often used to describe spans:
long, short, longer, shorter, large, different, equal, adjacent, larger, continuous, wide, simple, main, clear, foot, time, life, greater, average, wider, narrow, longest, limited, smaller, interior, year, unequal, normal, maximum, brief, intermediate, alternate, digit, concrete, multiple, draw, vast, fixed, suspended, moderate, allowable, broad, extended, temporal, shortened, unsupported, consecutive, horizontal, enormous, finite, truss, successive, huge, outer, shortest, movable, arched, hand, mean, wooden, vertical, respective.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective spans:
range.

Consonant match to spans:
spurns, spoons, spins, spines, spends, spawns.

Words that sound like spans:
spans, spanz, spins, spoons, spines, spends, spawns, spams, spons, span, spaz, spanner, spazz, sans, spence, spanners, spurns, spane, spann, spens, sanz, spana, sannes, spns, cepan, spumes, spent, spin, spine, sins, sounds, signs, spain, sons, spam, scenes, spawn, spies, spinner, sens, spas, sams, spinners, spanned, spammer, spen, sines, spand, spina, spinney, spang, sperms, sones, signes, aspens, spano, seans, spammers, spawner, spammy, cens, sangs, saenz, spees, sains, cins, speas, cines, sanse, spahn, spanos, spays, spean, spener, serpens, senz, spiess, spinne, spaes, spange, sainz, spini, spawny, spanger, speno, samms, sohns, spamm, spinneys, cnes, speese, sam's, spinels, spinnies, s-bahn, serpins, sowens, sowins, spathes, speos.