| span [span] AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 1. The dimension of a craft measured between lateral extremities; the measure of this dimension. 2. Specifically, the dimension of an airfoil from tip to tip measured in a straight line. ENGINEERING A structural dimension measured between certain extremities. MATHEMATICS The span of a set of vectors is the set of all possible linear combinations of those vectors. STATISTICS The difference between the highest value and the lowest value in a range of values. |