Interval Definition
ĭntər-vəl
intervals
noun
intervals
A space between objects, points, or units, especially when making uniform amounts of separation.
We set up hurdles at intervals of 15 yards around the track.
American Heritage
A space between two things; gap; distance.
Webster's New World
A period of time between two events, points of time, etc.; intervening period.
Webster's New World
A segment of an athletic workout in which an athlete runs, swims, or does other exercise over a series of predetermined distances at regular time increments with intermittent rests.
American Heritage
Webster's New World
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idiom
at intervals
- In a series separated by space or time:
trees planted at intervals; coughing at intervals.
American Heritage
at intervals
- once in a while
- here and there
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Interval
Noun
Singular:
intervalPlural:
intervalsIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Interval
- at intervals
- at intervals
Origin of Interval
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From Old French intervalle, 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”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English intervalle from Old French from Latin intervallum inter- inter- vallum rampart
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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