interval
UK /ˈɪntəvəʊ/ · US /ˈɪntɚvəl/ noun
Forms intervals
- noun A distance in space.
- noun A period of time. “the interval between contractions during childbirth”
- noun (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).
- noun (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
- noun (chiefly UK and India) An intermission.
- noun (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
- noun (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.
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Etymology
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”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
- noun 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.
- noun 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.
Etymology [L. intervallum; inter between + vallum a wall: cf. F. intervalle. See Wall.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “interval”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details