Definition of interval

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Interval (n.) Alt. of Interval.

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Network :: Network (n.) A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them..
Interstice :: Interstice (n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall..
Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..
Disdiapason :: Disdiapason (n.) An interval of two octaves, or a fifteenth; -- called also bisdiapason..
Tricentenary :: Tricentenary (a.) Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary..
Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Happening, by revolution, at a stated time; returning regularly, after a certain period of time; acting, happening, or appearing, at fixed intervals; recurring; as, periodical epidemics..
Tenth :: Tenth (n.) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third..
Straggle :: Straggle (v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Below the true pitch; hence, as applied to intervals, minor, or lower by a half step; as, a flat seventh; A flat..
Minutely :: Minutely (adv.) At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly.
Half-hourly :: Half-hourly (a.) Done or happening at intervals of half an hour.
Ninth :: Ninth (n.) An interval containing an octave and a second.
Timer :: Timer (n.) A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc..
Graduate :: Graduate (n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc..
Clouding :: Clouding (n.) A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals..
Day :: Day (n.) The period of the earth's revolution on its axis. -- ordinarily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is called a solar day; if it is a star, a sidereal day; if it is the moon, a lunar day. See Civil day, Sidereal day
Alliteration :: Alliteration (n.) The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -.
Intermittent :: Intermittent (a.) Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever..
Isochronal :: Isochronal (a.) Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times; recurring at regular intervals; isochronal vibrations or oscillations.
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