span
C1UK /spæn/US /spæn/
Meaning
noun
the length of time that something lasts or is able to continue
“I worked with him over a span of six years.”
verb
to last all through a period of time or to cover the whole of it
“His acting career spanned 55 years.”
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“But the probable life span of civilizational consciousness”
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“one day be bigger than them bigger than any one person they're mindful that its effects will span generations that's not an accident in a way it's the whole point in a”
📺 2019 Stanford Commencement address by Tim CookLearn this word in the video →
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