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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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... other, unknown to the Gibsons, a longer interval than usual occurred between Osborne's visits, while Roger came almost every day, always with some fresh offering by which he openly sought to relieve Cynthia's indisposition as far as it lay in his power. Her manner to him was so gentle and gracious that ...

— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... style. I have therefore ventured to call it the Arian order — a name to which it has a double right; first, because it was the style of the Aryas, or Arians, of Kashmir; and, secondly, because its intercolumniations are always of four diameters — an interval ...

— Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet • by William Henry Knight

... look stolidly at the highway. The English Rear- guard of cavalry crosses the scene and passes out. An interval. It grows dusk.] ...

— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy

... at once. He sat looking at his father's bent face and heavy eyes. The blow had really aged him, for "'tis the heart holds up the body." And to-night John Campbell's heart had failed him. He realized fully that the absence and interval necessary to heal Mary's sense of wrong and insult might also be full of other elements equally inimical to his plans. Besides, he had a real joy in his son's presence. He loved him tenderly; it maimed every pleasure he had to ...

— A Daughter of Fife • Amelia Edith Barr

... "being what was called the poetry of Chiappino's life;" and act second, "its prose," opens after a supposed interval of ...

— An Introduction to the Study of Browning • Arthur Symons

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