interval
nounEtymology
From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, 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”).
- derived from intervallum — “space between, interval, distance, interval of time, pause, difference; literally, space between two palisades or walls”
- derived from intervalle
- inherited from interval
Definitions
A distance in space.
- 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval.
- [M]any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it [the fire] by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces […]
A period of time.
- the interval between contractions during childbirth
The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often…
The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
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A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
An intermission.
half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
- Spain made three substitutions at the interval, sending on former Arsenal captain Fabregas, Chelsea's Juan Mata and Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina for Xavi, David Silva and Casillas.
Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.
The neighborhood
- neighboropen interval
- neighborhalf-open interval
- neighborclosed interval
- neighborsub-interval
- neighborsubinterval
Derived
augmented interval, bit interval, Boutellier interval, compound interval, confidence interval, contour interval, devil's interval, diminished interval, equal-interval chord, even-interval, generic interval, high-intensity interval training, hyperinterval, interval class, interval cycle, intervaled, intervalize, intervallic, intervally, interval of time, intervalometer, interval time, interval training, interval transit time, interval variable, lucid interval, major interval, midinterval, minor interval, mixed-interval chord, musical interval, perfect interval, postmortem interval, punctured interval, QT interval, serial interval, superfluous interval, surface interval, time interval, unit interval · +3 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at interval. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at interval. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at interval
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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