span (unit of length)

Span is the width of a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the pinky finger. See also: English unit1 span = 9 inches= 0.2286 mIn Slavic languages, the analogue of span is pyad (peti, пядь). It is the width from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger. See also: Obsolete Russian weights and measures1 pyad = 4 vershok= 7 inches= 0.1778 mIn Swahili, the equivalent of span is futuri. [1]
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