(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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(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...
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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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