interval

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”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚvəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəvəl/

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• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val

interval (plural intervals)

1. A distance in space.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. , London: ">…] , and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:

     'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval.

   • 1666 September 8, The London Gazette:

     any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces

2. A period of time.

   the interval between contractions during childbirth

3. (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).
4. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
5. (chiefly British) An intermission.
6. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
   • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Spain made three substitutions at the interval, sending on former Arsenal captain Fabregas, Chelsea's Juan Mata and Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina for Xavi, David Silva and Casillas.

7. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

• (mathematics): open interval, half-open interval, closed interval, sub-interval/subinterval,

• “interval”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “interval”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “interval”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Interval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Interval in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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Borrowed from Latin intervallum.

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interval m (plural intervals)

1. interval

• “interval”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
• “interval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “interval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “interval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech Wikipedia has an article on:

interval

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interval m inan

1. (mathematics) interval

• “interval”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “interval”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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interval

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• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntərvɑl/

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interval n (plural intervallen, diminutive intervalletje n)

1. interval

• integratie-interval

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Borrowed from French intervalle, from Latin intervallum.

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interval n (plural intervale)

1. interval

• IPA^(key): /intěrʋaːl/
• Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val

intèrvāl m (Cyrillic spelling интѐрва̄л)

1. interval