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wingspan
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context usually in singular English) the distance from the left wingtip to the right wingtip
WordNet
n. linear distance between the extremities of an airfoil [syn: wingspread]
Wikipedia
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.
The term wingspan, more technically extent, is also used for other winged animals such as pterosaurs, bats, insects, etc., and other fixed-wing aircraft such as ornithopters.
Wingspan is a term used in measurements of aircraft and flying animals for the distance between the tips of the wings.
Wingspan may also refer to:
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Wingspan: Hits and History, a greatest hits collection of Paul McCartney and Wings
- Wingspan (film), film release along with the album
- Wingspan (magazine), the membership magazine of Birds Australia
- Wingspan (Transformers), a character from the Transformers series
- Wingspan, an album (and track) by jazz pianist Mulgrew Miller.
- Wingspan Bank
- Wingspan, the in-flight magazine of All Nippon Airways
Wingspan was the quarterly membership magazine of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU). It was first issued in 1991, replacing the RAOU Newsletter. When Birds Australia and Bird Observation and Conservation Australia merged in 2012 to form BirdLife Australia, Wingspan's run ended, and was replaced with Australian Birdlife magazine.
Wingspan was a glossy colour magazine that contained articles on wild birds and birding in Australasia and adjacent regions. Regular content included articles on bird identification, biology and conservation, as well as reviews, letters and coverage of the RAOU's projects and membership activities. It was partly supported by advertising, most of which is related to birding, such as for binoculars and telescopes, holiday accommodation, and bird touring. It was distributed to RAOU members. It was repeatedly recognised in the Whitley Awards, as "Best Periodical" in 2007, 2008 and 2011, "Outstanding Periodical" in 2006, "Best Specialist Periodical" in 2000 and 2003, and as "Best Zoological Periodical" in 2001.
Birds Australia also produced a number of other publications as supplements to Wingspan magazine. These were circulated to Birds Australia members along with the magazine, and included the annual State of Australia's Birds reports, as well as occasional specialised publications, such as Birds on Farms (2000), Shorebird Conservation in Australia (2002) and Fire and Birds (2005).
Wingspan is a 2001 made-for-television documentary film about Paul McCartney's musical career, after The Beatles split up, with his second band, Wings.
Produced by the McCartneys' MPL Communications, it was broadcast around the world to accompany the contemporary release of a 2-disc retrospective collection from McCartney's solo career, titled Wingspan: Hits and History. An accompanying book, also titled Wingspan, based upon the documentary's script as edited by Beatles' historian Mark Lewisohn, was published in 2002.
Usage examples of "wingspan".
Once they feared attack by a giant hawklike bird with nasty talons and beak and a better than three-meter wingspan, but after a lot of screeching and mock attack runs, it had broken off, possibly because they had gone out of its territory, possibly because it decided these newcomers were just too damned big to deal with.
The females had creamy yellow-green wings, very pale, their wingspans perhaps an inch and a half.
With a wingspan of ten paces, it lay on its back, pierced by a lightning bolt, and ravens pecked at its eyes.
Then it coalesced into the largest moth Bink had ever imagined, with a wingspan that cast the entire castle into shadow.
He was aware of its gradual evolution from minor landbound forms struggling to come even with the large amphibs, finally returning entirely to the sea-and then a memory gap broken only by glimpses of the larger sizes, some with lengthening necks and others with shortening necks, until this line attained its present configuration: eight full wingspans from snout to tail, the neck making up half of that.
He was aware of its gradual evolution from minor landbound forms struggling to come even with the large amphibs, finally returning entirely to the sea—and then a memory gap broken only by glimpses of the larger sizes, some with lengthening necks and others with shortening necks, until this line attained its present configuration: eight full wingspans from snout to tail, the neck making up half of that.
The seventy-seven-foot, ten-inch wingspan barely cleared the fronts of the buildings as he struggled to climb out of the glass-and-concrete canyon.
As true darkness fell, innumerable prairie gossamers - much paler than their forest cousins, but also of greater wingspan, luminescent shades the size of small children - danced in the vales and valleys of the gently rolling hills.
Beneath its fuselage is another, smaller craft: a single-seat midwing monoplane of a length of just over nineteen feet and with a wingspan of sixteen feet, fifteen inches.
But the canyons were narrow and not easily navigated by the great birds with their broad wingspans, so retrieval might have to be undertaken by the ship's company.
The carcasses of road kill were being plucked at by vultures with wingspans like Stealth bombers.
Gone also were the saber-toothed tiger, huge birds with twenty-five-foot wingspans and most other animals that weighed one hundred or more pounds, most dying by asphyxiation from the smoke and volcanic gases.
Ramotli hovered, her wingspan greater than even Mnementh's as she vaned idly.
It was a vulturelike bird, its body as big as his own, its wingspan at least a dozen feet.