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Interval

Interval (interval)
n.(?)
In"ter*val
[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. 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.


Interval

Interval (interval)
n.(?)
In"ter*val
  1. 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.














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