mainspan

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English

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Etymology

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From main +‎ span.

Noun

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mainspan (plural mainspans)

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