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Interval : (noun)
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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Interval : \In"ter*val\, n. [L. intervallum; inter between _
vallum a wall: cf. F. intervalle. See Wall.]
1. A space between things; a void space intervening between
any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or
hills.
'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, A
dreadful interval. --Milton.
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.
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.
4. (Mus.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.]
The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land. --The
Century.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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INTERVAL. A space of time between two periods. When a person is unable to
perform an act at any two given periods, but in theInterval : 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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