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Definition of Spanned
1. span [v] - See also: span
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spanned
Literary usage of Spanned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our First Century: Being a Popular Descriptive Portraiture of the One by Richard Miller Devens (1876)
"The Wide Continent spanned with Iron from the Farthest East to the Golden
Gate.—Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.—Seven Days from New York to San ..."
2. Ten Personal Studies by Wilfrid Philip Ward (1908)
"THAT a period of fifty-seven years—from 1846 to 1903 —should be spanned by two
pontificates is an event quite unparalleled in the history of the Catholic ..."
3. Switzerland, Together with Chamonix and the Italian Lakes: Handbook for by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1922)
"... the gorge of the Goldach, spanned by the iron Martin bridge (100'high).
Here, at the beginning of the 10th cent., the monk Notker composed his 'Media ..."
4. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"Dynamic simple volumes spanned and A dynamic spanned volume consists of two or more
... The areas of unallocated space used to create spanned volumes can be ..."
5. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"This bridge spanned the valley of the river Gard by a triple row of arches, the
first six having a span of 6Ü feet each ; above these High Bridge, ll. ..."
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