A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps).
A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a run.
A series of stages by which one progresses to a better position.
In the game of go, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.
The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.
Of a knitted garment: to develop a ladder as a result of a broken thread.
To ascend (a building, a wall, etc.) using a ladder.
To arrange or form into a shape of a ladder.
To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.
A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
The space of all linear combinations of something.
A portion of something by length; a subsequence.
A small space or a brief portion of time.
The spread or extent of an arch or between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between supports.
The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.
wingspan of a plane or bird
The length of a cable, wire, rope, chain between two consecutive supports.
Any of various traditional units of length approximating this distance, especially the English handspan of 9 inches forming ⅛ fathom and equivalent to 22.86 cm.
A pair of horses or other animals driven together; usually, such a pair of horses when similar in color, form, and action.
The full width of an open hand from the end of the thumb to the end of the little finger used as an informal unit of length.
To extend through the distance between or across.
To extend through (a time period).
To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object.
To generate an entire space by means of linear combinations.
To fetter, as a horse; to hobble.