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[ verb ] to cover or extend over an area or time period
Examples "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres" "The novel spans three centuries" Used in print (Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)Second , even if the characteristic polynomial factors completely over F into a product of polynomials of degree 1 , there may not be enough characteristic vectors for T to span the space V ; this is clearly a deficiency in T . On_the_other_hand , the null_space of * * f and the null_space of * * f together span V , the former being the subspace spanned by * * f and the latter the subspace spanned by * * f and * * f . On_the_other_hand , the null_space of * * f and the null_space of * * f together span V , the former being the subspace spanned by * * f and the latter the subspace spanned by * * f and * * f . On_the_other_hand , the null_space of * * f and the null_space of * * f together span V , the former being the subspace spanned by * * f and the latter the subspace spanned by * * f and * * f . Accordingly , the ' functions ' * * f span the space of solutions of * * f . |
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[ noun ] the complete duration of something
Examples "the job was finished in the span of an hour" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The spectacular Mays , who reaches a decade in the big_leagues come May 25 , joined six other sluggers who walloped four home_runs in a span of nine innings . (S. Idell Pyle, et al., Onsets, Completions, and...)Thus , the Span of its ossification was shortened and the center 's ability to `` catch_up '' in ossification is demonstrated . The mean onset age was 25.3 months ( Table 1 ) , and the average Span of the osseous stage was 133 months . The correlation ( Table 2 ) between onset age and completion age was + .50 , and that between onset age and Span was - .10 . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches)
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[ noun ] (transportation) a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 18438
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[ noun ] the act of sitting or standing astride
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