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English

  1. 🔊 the distance or interval between two points
  2. 🔊 a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
  3. 🔊 the complete duration of something
    “the job was finished in the span of an hour”
  4. 🔊 the act of sitting or standing astride
  5. 🔊 a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
  6. 🔊 two items of the same kind
  7. 🔊 to cover or extend over an area or time period
    “Rivers traverse the valley floor”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 luz span
  2. 🔊 palmo span, handspan (an informal unit of length based on a hand's width)

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