Definition of "long-span" [long-span]

• Spanning over a long period of time. (adjective)

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• "Aluminum long-span roofing sheets and wire gauze lined the top of the fencing."
• "Seventy-five percent of buildings with long-span roofs (greater than 5 m clear span) were severely damaged, and only 17 percent were without significant damage (Spence and others, 1996, p. 1059)."
• "Since each section of floor on the long-span side weighed about 500 tons, I would explore these ‘explosive’ sounds in Tower 1 as evidence of a floor or floors detaching and impacting the floors below on the south side which most probably accelerated south wall failure."