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
Antonyms:
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:
interval
Plural:
intervals

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Interval

  • at intervals
  • at intervals

Origin of Interval

  • 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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