Definition of interval

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Interval (n.) 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..

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Quinible :: Quinible (n.) An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals..
Intersticed :: Intersticed (a.) Provided with interstices; having interstices between; situated at intervals.
Intervalla :: Intervalla (pl. ) of Intervallu.
Diastem :: Diastem (n.) Intervening space; interval.
Straggle :: Straggle (v. t.) To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
Grumose :: Grumose (a.) Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.
Sixteenth :: Sixteenth (n.) An interval comprising two octaves and a second.
Interval :: Interval (n.) A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills..
Distance :: Distance (n.) Length or interval of time; period, past or future, between two eras or events..
Canon :: Canon (n.) A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation..
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
Intersperse :: Intersperse (v. t.) To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures..
Tone :: Tone (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone..
Octave :: Octave (n.) The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones..
Interstice :: Interstice (n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders..
Morse Alphabet :: Morse alphabet () A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .- (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them..
Space :: Space (n.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books..
Graduator :: Graduator (n.) An instrument for dividing any line, right or curve, into small, regular intervals..
Mode :: Mode (n.) The scale as affected by the various positions in it of the minor intervals; as, the Dorian mode, the Ionic mode, etc., of ancient Greek music..
Rest :: Rest (n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
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