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/ˈɪntərvəl/ /ˈɪnərvəl/ Listen

noun

Interval n.

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."

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.

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.

(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."

Augmented interval (Mus.), an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.

Intervale, Interval 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."

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"Interval" Quotes from Famous Books

... American could leave it for Havre it was necessary that his passport should be viseed in London by the French and Belgian consuls-general and in Southampton by Colonel Swalm. We arrived in Southampton at two in the morning to learn that the boat left at four, and that unless, in the interval, we obtained the autograph and seal of Colonel Swalm she ...

— With the Allies • Richard Harding Davis

... into her mother's room and stood by the window. Now the window of Mrs. Tennant's bedroom looked also into the garden, and was really parallel with the window by which Kathleen meant to escape. There was an interval of silence, and then Alice had her reward! for the window of their mutual bedroom was flung wide open, and Kathleen, neatly dressed, appeared on the window-sill. She looked around her for a minute. Alice caught a glimpse of her bright face by the light of the moon, which was ...

— The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... months to consider, and that, if he decided affirmatively, he should notify Lescott in advance of his coming. He proposed sending Samson a small library of carefully picked books, which the mountaineer eagerly agreed to devour in the interval. ...

— The Call of the Cumberlands • Charles Neville Buck

... the hall struck ten; in an interval between the dances Judith slipped away. Stafford wished to follow her, but Cousin William held him like the Ancient Mariner and talked of the long past on the Eastern Shore. Judith, entering the library, came upon the Reverend Mr. Corbin Wood, deep in a great chair and a calf-bound ...

— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston

... as monstrous as the trunk of the baobab and as high as towers, compared with which the pillars of our cathedrals are utterly insignificant. In those days the same gods reigned at Thebes as three thousand years before, but in the interval they had been transformed little by little in accordance with the progressive development of human thought, and Amen, the host of this prodigious hall, asserted himself more and more as the sovereign master of life and eternity. Pharaonic Egypt was really tending, in spite of some revolts, ...

— Egypt (La Mort De Philae) • Pierre Loti

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