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span 1. Psychol the amount of material that can be processed in a single mental act 2. short for wingspan 3. a unit of length based on the width of an expanded hand, usually taken as nine inches span [span] (aerospace engineering) The dimension of a craft measured between lateral extremities; the measure of this dimension. Specifically, the dimension of an airfoil from tip to tip measured in a straight line. (engineering) A structural dimension measured between certain extremities. (mathematics) For a setA, the intersection of all sets that containAand have some specified property. Also known as hull. For a set of vectors, the set of all possible linear combinations of those vectors. Also known as linear span. (statistics) The difference between the highest value and the lowest value in a range of values. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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