Definition of interval

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Interval (n.) 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..

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Lunatic :: Lunatic (n.) A person affected by lunacy; an insane person, esp. one who has lucid intervals; a madman; a person of unsound mind..
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh..
Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc..
Semitone :: Semitone (n.) Half a tone; -- the name commonly applied to the smaller intervals of the diatonic scale.
Minor :: Minor (a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third..
Seventeenth :: Seventeenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a third.
Olympiad :: Olympiad (n.) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor/bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads..
Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..
Intersomnious :: Intersomnious (a.) Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of wakefulness.
Epilepsy :: Epilepsy (n.) The falling sickness, so called because the patient falls suddenly to the ground; a disease characterized by paroxysms (or fits) occurring at interval and attended by sudden loss of consciousness, and convulsive motions of the muscles..
Intervallums :: Intervallums (pl. ) of Intervallu.
Sixth :: Sixth (n.) The interval embracing six diatonic degrees of the scale.
Interval :: Interval (n.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.
Interval :: Interval (n.) A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills..
Enharmonical :: Enharmonical (a.) Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.
Grumose :: Grumose (a.) Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.
Between :: Between (n.) Intermediate time or space; interval.
Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..
Interval :: Interval (n.) 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..
Fifteenth :: Fifteenth (n.) An interval consisting of two octaves.
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