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mainspan en · NOUN

Etymology

From main + span.

Meanings

  1. The length of suspended roadway between the towers of a bridge.
    • The bridge has a cable-stayed mainspan. 2007 August 7, William J. Broad, “From Fresh Ideas and Better Steel, Safer Bridges”, in New York Times:

Forms

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mainspans Number=Plur lexicographic