# spans

Pronunciation: say "SPANZ" US/UK /spænz/, AUS /spæːnz/

## Noun

1. Plural of span. — plural of span
   - Simple: Plural of span. Use this form when talking about more than one.
   - _Engineers inspected the spans of the old viaduct one by one._
   - _The two spans of time were separated by nearly a century._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present indicative of span. — third-person singular simple present indicative of span
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of span. Use it with he, she, or it.
   - _The fallen tree spans the entire width of the trail._
   - _This collection spans every major period of the artist's work._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/spans (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).