hand span
Thumb-to-pinky distance
A hand span is the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the pinky when the hand is fully spread, historically used as an informal unit of measurement—roughly eight or nine inches.
The fish was about two hand spans long.
The term appears in contexts where precise measurement matters less than approximate scale.
- palmHand's flat interior
- fingersAppendages of the hand
- measureUnit of quantity
- breadthExtent across something
- reachExtend to touch
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