Word: makespan
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: make
span
Definition: In manufacturing, the time difference between the start and finish of a sequence of jobs or tasks.
Morphemes:
Affix: make
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing.
Affix: span
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: The time required to execute a parallel algorithm on an infinite number of processors, i.e. the shortest distance across a directed acyclic graph representing the computation steps.