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arm span
noun
The length of a person's outstretched arms, measured from the fingertips of the two middle fingers.
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'arm span' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the distance from one end of a person's outstretched arm to the other. For example, "The man had an impressive arm span of two meters."
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It was hard, the trees had a circumference greater than a human's arm span.
The lower half of the body is especially long and the arm span is usually greater than the person's height.
Students will be chosen according to physical characteristics such as height and arm span as well as fitness, strength and "coachability".
(He was on his way to being 6 feet 4 inches tall with an arm span of 6 feet 7 inches).
Even a man with Phelps' freakishly long arm span will be feeling the strain by the time these Games are over.
The graphs showed each student's wrist and ankle circumference, or height and arm span, or length of pointer finger and longest toe.
He can roll them sideways across his arm span, or lie on his back and keep them orbiting above and around him like a cowboy's lariat.
This has been found by most administrations to be the optimum arrangement in view of the limited arm span and "memory" of the sorter.
Vast canvases, twice Wallinger's height and arm span, look at first like gigantic Rorschach tests; or at least this is the immediate association (Rorschachs being all about visual association and our compulsion to find the figurative in the abstract).
Beyond his 6-foot-5 arm span, he can perform the wheelchair player's version of a jump — tilting his chair on one of its large wheels to reach a few inches higher and block a shot.
What is your 'best guess' of the arm span of the person the class measured?
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