mainspan

noun

mainspan

noun

Etymology From main + span.

1

The length of suspended roadway between the towers of a bridge.

The bridge has a cable-stayed mainspan.2007 August 7, William J. Broad, “From Fresh Ideas and Better Steel, Safer Bridges”, in New York Times:

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