The phrase "ability to span" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the capacity to cover a range or extend across different areas or subjects.
Example: "The software's ability to span multiple platforms makes it highly versatile for users."
Alternatives: "capacity to cover" or "capability to extend".
"Mario Molina is unique in his ability to span from fundamental science to local and global policy for stewarding our environment.
THE Internet's ability to span borders, destroy distance and unite the world's computer networks into a seamless whole looks wonderfully elegant to engineers, but awfully messy to lawyers.
More important are the deep pools of liquidity and talent in London, its trading tradition and its ability to span time zones more comfortably than some.
"I've been very impressed by Gucci training -- the rigor, the ability to span all the different product categories," said Ms. Bravo, who learned of Mr. Bailey through a friend and contacted him, around 2001, just as he was thinking of leaving Gucci.
LOS ANGELES — The generational contrast between the not-so-tech-savvy 36-hole leader of the Northern Trust Open and the PGA Tour's use of social networking last week is evidence of golf's ability to span decades and gracefully embrace change.
A photo of him at a demonstration (complete with a "Green Taxes Now" placard) appeared on the cover.This is illustrative: Mr Huhne's political career was built on an ability to span the void dividing his party's classical liberals from its social democrats.
He was very approachable and consistently available to discuss a broad range of issues, having an uncanny ability to readily span from basic science, to applied science, to public health, to policy, and to national security.
The role for evolutionary history in acclimation response is consistent with the range of acclimation abilities we see in nature; although the ability to acclimate seems to span every kingdom of life, variation exists both between and within species (Charmantier et al. 2008; Reed and Waples 2010; Somero 2010; Tepolt and Somero 2014).
Even when it was drained and the land was firmed, access to the north had to await the ability of civil engineers to span the valley with a bridge.
The End-effector Transmission Index (ETI) reflects the ability of branch force vectors to span the whole required output force space, and is defined with the limb force vectors exerted on the end effector and the end-effector geometric characteristics.
Caltrans was waiting for the ability to create a causeway to span the area instead.
