(Commonwealth, UK, Irish) A hand tool for adjusting nuts and bolts.
Pass me that spanner, Jake; there's just one more bolt to screw in.
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Many good ones here! Thinking about the comic Spanner's Galaxy when they had to visit a large space station that had frequent parasite problems. Everyone past the arrival gate had to have all their hair removed and w…
(rare) One who, or that which, spans.
The scheme of the spanner of continents and the desire of the little husbandman hoarding for his loved ones...
“A.Ï. doesn’t carry a riggers spanner “just in case”.”
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“Many good ones here! Thinking about the comic Spanner's Galaxy when they had to visit a large space station that had frequent parasite problems. Everyone past the arrival gate had to have all their hair removed and wear provided clothing.”
“Wissenschaftsministerium lässt Spanner-Fall an der Universität Freiburg prüfen Nach dem Spanner-Fall an der Universität Freiburg hat es viel Kritik am Verhalten des Rektorats gegeben. Im Auftrag des Wissenschaftsministeriums prüft nun eine Juristin die Vorgänge.”
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(graph theory) A (usually sparse) graph whose shortest path distances approximate those in a dense graph or other metric space.
The spanner for spanning or winding up the spring of the wheel lock.
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