Interval

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interval \In"ter*val\, n. [L. intervallum; inter between +
     vallum a wall: cf. F. intervalle. See {Wall}.]
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     1. A space between things; a void space intervening between
        any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or
        hills.


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              'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left,
              A dreadful interval.                  --Milton.
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     2. Space of time between any two points or events; as, the
        interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and
        the accession of Charles II.
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     3. A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar
        conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms
        of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.
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     4. (Mus.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.
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     {At intervals}, coming or happening with intervals between;
        now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals."
        --Tennyson.
  
     {Augmented interval} (Mus.), an interval increased by half a
        step or half a tone. Interval

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interval \In"ter*val\, Intervale \In"ter*vale\, n.
     A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a
     stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings
     of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the
     adjacent hills. Cf. {Bottom}, n., 7. [Local, U. S.]
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           The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. --The
                                                    Century.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  interval
       n 1: a definite length of time marked off by two instants [syn: {time
            interval}]
       2: a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between
          two given endpoints
       3: the distance between things; "fragile items require
          separation and cushioning" [syn: {separation}]
       4: the difference in pitch between two notes [syn: {musical
          interval}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  185 Moby Thesaurus words for "interval":
     abeyance, amount, aperture, arrearage, breach, break, broaching,
     caesura, caliber, cavity, cease-fire, cessation, chasm, check,
     clearing, cleft, coffee break, comma, compass,
     consecutive intervals, crack, cut, day, day off, defalcation,
     defect, deficiency, deficit, degree, delay, diapason, diatessaron,
     diatonic interval, diatonic semitone, disclosure, discontinuity,
     distance, downtime, drop, enharmonic diesis, enharmonic interval,
     extent, fateful moment, fenestra, fifth, fissure, fistula,
     fontanel, foramen, fourth, gap, gape, gat, grade, gulf, half step,
     half time, half-time intermission, halftone, height, hesitation,
     hiatus, hole, holiday, hollow, hour, inlet, instant, interim,
     interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interregnum,
     interruption, interstice, juncture, kairos, lack, lacuna, lapse,
     laying open, layoff, leak, leap, less semitone, letup, level, lull,
     mark, meantime, meanwhile, measure, melodic interval, minute,
     missing link, moment, moment of truth, need, notch, note, nuance,
     octave, off-time, omission, opening, opening up, orifice, outage,
     outlet, parallel octaves, parenthesis, pas, passageway, pause, peg,
     period, pitch, plane, plateau, point, point of repose, pore,
     pregnant moment, proportion, psychological moment, quiet spell,
     range, ratio, reach, recess, relief, remission, remove, respite,
     rest, resting point, round, rung, scale, scope, season, second,
     semitone, seventh, shade, shadow, shortage, sixth, slot, space,
     span, spell, split, stage, stair, stand-down, standard, stay, step,
     stint, stoma, stretch, suspension, third, throwing open, time,
     time lag, time off, time out, tone, tread, truce, ullage,
     uncorking, unison interval, unstopping, vacation, void, wait, want,
     wantage, while, whole step, yawn
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INTERVAL. A space of time between two periods. When a person is unable to 
  perform an act at any two given periods, but in the interval he has 
  performed such act, as when a man is found to be insane in the months of 
  January and March, and he enters into a contract or makes a will in the 
  interval, in February, he will be presumed to have been insane at that time; 
  and the onus will lie to show his sanity, on the person who affirms such 
  act. See Lucid interval.