interval
English
Etymology
From Old French intervalle, from Latin intervallum (“space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”), from inter (“between”) + vallum (“palisade, wall”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɪntɚvəl/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɪntəvəl/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val
Noun
interval (plural intervals)
- A distance in space.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- A period of time.
- the interval between contractions during childbirth
- (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
- (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
- (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
- (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play
Hyponyms
- (mathematics): open interval, half-open interval, closed interval, sub-interval/subinterval,
Related terms
Translations
distance in space
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period of time
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music: distance in pitch of notes
section of the real line
intermission — see intermission
sports:half time — see half time
cricket: break between sessions
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Further reading
- interval in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- interval in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- interval at OneLook Dictionary Search
Interval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Interval in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Czech
Derived terms
- intervalový
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntərvɑl/
Audio (file)
Derived terms
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /intěrʋaːl/
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val
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