noun. A space between objects, points, or units, especially when making uniform amounts of separation.

noun. An amount of time between events, especially of uniform duration separating events in a series.

noun. A segment of an athletic workout in which an athlete runs, swims, or does other exercise over a series of predetermined distances at regular time increments with intermittent rests.

noun. undefined

noun. A set of numbers consisting of all the numbers between a pair of given numbers along with either, both, or none of the endpoints.

noun. A closed interval.

noun. An open interval.

noun. A half-open interval.

noun. A line segment representing the set of numbers in an interval.

noun. An intermission, as between acts of a play.

noun. The difference, usually expressed in the number of steps, between two pitches.

idiom. (at intervals) In a series separated by space or time.

noun. A vacant or unobstructed space between points or objects; an intervening vacancy; an open reach or stretch between limits: as, the intervals between the ranks of an army.

noun. Specifically, a low level tract of land, as along a river, between hills, etc. Also intervale.

noun. Any dividing tract in space, time, or degree; an intervening space, period, or state; a separating reach or stretch of any kind: with reference either to the space itself or to the points of separation or division: as, an interval of rocky ground between meadows; to fill up an interval in. conversation with music; an interval of ease or of relapse in disease; a lucid interval in delirium; to set trees at intervals of fifty feet; to breathe only at long intervals; the clock strikes at intervals of an hour.

noun. Specifically, in entomology, one of the spaces between longitudinal striæ of the elytra. When the striæ are regular, both they and the intervals are numbered from the suture outward.

noun. In music, the difference or distance in pitch between two tones.

noun. The values given in the first column are those of the ideal intervals, such as are secured by using pure intonation; those given in the second column are those of equally tempered intonation, such as is used on keyed instruments, like the pianoforte and the organ. (See intonation and temperament.) A diatonic, interval is one that occurs between two tones of a normal major or minor scale. A chromatic interval is one that occurs between a tone of such a scale and a tone foreign to that scale. An enharmonic interval is one on an instrument of fixed intonation, that is apparent only in the notation, being in fact a unison, as, on the pianoforte, the interval from F♮ to G♭. In musical science the theory of intervals is introductory to that of chords and to harmony in general.

noun. In logic, a proposition.

noun. During or between intervals; between whiles or by turns; occasionally or alternately: as, to rest at intervals.

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. Cf. bottom, n., 7.

noun. A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects.

noun. Space of time between any two points or events

noun. A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states

noun. Difference in pitch between any two tones.

noun. coming or happening with intervals between; now and then.

noun. an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.

noun. A distance in space.

noun. A period of time.

noun. 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. A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.

noun. An intermission.

noun. half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play

noun. Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

noun. a definite length of time marked off by two instants

noun. the difference in pitch between two notes

noun. a set containing all points (or all real numbers) between two given endpoints

noun. the distance between things

"[273-2] Strictly speaking, the interval between 11 Men and 13 Oc is fourteen days, but throughout this paper, by "_interval between_" two days, is to be understood the number of days to be counted _from_ one _to and including_ the other."

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