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Span is the amount of area or the amount of time that something encompasses. 1  An example of span is how long you live. 2  An example of span is a house on three acres.  a unit of linear measure equal to nine inches: originally based on the distance between the tips of a man's extended thumb and little finger.
Any distance between two things is called a span. These end points can be physical, like the span of a rope between two trees, or they can be more abstract, such as the span of time between five and six o'clock. Span comes from the Old English spann, the width of the stretched-out hand, measured from thumb to little finger.