Installment Definition

instôlmənt

installments

noun

installments

One of a number of successive payments in settlement of a debt.

American Heritage

Any of the parts of a debt or other sum of money to be paid at regular times over a specified period.

Webster's New World

A portion of something, such as a publication, issued at intervals.

American Heritage

Any of several parts, as of a serial story, appearing at intervals.

Webster's New World

An installing or being installed; installation.

Webster's New World

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Other Word Forms of Installment

Singular:

installment

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installments

Alteration of obsolete estallment from Anglo-Norman from Old French estaler to place, fix from estal place of Germanic origin stel- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
A 1732 alteration of estallment, from Anglo-Norman estaler (“fix payments”), from Old French estal (“fixed position”), from Old High German stal (“stall", "standing place”)

From Wiktionary
From install, itself from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin installare, from Latin in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, see below)

From Wiktionary