Span

Span may refer to:

Science, technology and engineering

• Span (unit), the width of a human hand
• Span (engineering), a section between two intermediate supports
• Wingspan, the distance between the wingtips of a bird or aircraft
• Sorbitan esters, also known as a spans
• Nebbiolo, an Italian wine grape also known as Span

Mathematics

• Linear span, or simply span, in linear algebra
• Span (category theory)

Computing

• Span, a collection type representing a contiguous sequence of object or memory
  • System.Span<T>, a .NET Framework (C#) class for working with contiguous sequences of objects or stack-allocated arrays
  • std::span<T> and std::mdspan<T>, C++ classes for working with one-dimensional and multi-dimensional (respectively) array views
• <span>, an HTML element; See div and span
• Switched Port Analyzer, Cisco implementation of port mirroring
• Smartphone ad hoc network
• Critical path length in analysis of parallel algorithms

Other uses

• Span (band), a Norwegian rock band
• Span (design firm), an American design studio
• SPAN magazine, a publication of the US Embassy, New Delhi, India; see former editor V. D. Trivadi
• Saudi Payments Network
• CME SPAN, Standard Portfolio Analysis of Risk, for futures contracts
• Span Developments, former UK builder

People

• Denard Span (born 1984), a baseball outfielder
• Henrik Span Danish shipbuilder and admiral (1634–1694)
• Span., taxonomic author abbreviation of Johan Baptist Spanoghe (1798–1838), Dutch botanical collector