interval
interval Lexical Profile
interval Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An intervening period of time between two events, points, or states.
"The buses run at regular twenty-minute intervals throughout the afternoon."
A space, distance, or gap between two physical things or points.
"Fence posts were placed at three-meter intervals along the boundary of the property."
British A brief pause or break between the parts or acts of a play, concert, film, or sporting event.
"The audience gathered in the lobby for refreshments during the twenty-minute interval."
The difference in pitch between two musical tones, soundedeither simultaneously or successively.
"An octave is the fundamental musical interval in which the higher note has double the frequency of the lower note."
A set of real numbers that contains all real numbers lying between any two numbers of the set.
"The function is continuous on the closed interval from zero to one."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Old French 'intervalle', from Latin 'intervallum', originally referring to the open space between the ramparts or palisades ('valla') of a military camp.