# interval
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English interval, intervalle, from Old French intervalle, entreval, 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”).

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /ˈɪntɚvəl/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɪntəvəl/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val

### Noun

interval (plural intervals)
* A distance in space.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval.
** 1666 September 8, The London Gazette:[M]any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it [the fire] by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces […]
* A period of time.
    the interval between contractions during childbirth
* (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
* (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
* (chiefly British) An intermission.
* (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
** 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎:Spain made three substitutions at the interval, sending on former Arsenal captain Fabregas, Chelsea's Juan Mata and Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina for Xavi, David Silva and Casillas.
* (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

#### Hyponyms

* (mathematics): open interval, half-open interval, closed interval, sub-interval/subinterval,

#### Derived terms

* augmented interval
* bit interval
* Boutellier interval
* compound interval
* confidence interval
* contour interval
* devil's interval
* diminished interval
* equal-interval chord
* even-interval
* generic interval
* high-intensity interval training
* interval class
* interval cycle
* intervallic
* interval of time
* interval time
* interval training
* interval transit time
* interval variable
* lucid interval
* major interval
* minor interval
* mixed-interval chord
* musical interval
* perfect interval
* punctured interval
* QT interval
* serial interval
* superfluous interval
* surface interval
* time interval
* unit interval
* vertical interval
* Wilson score interval
* wolf interval

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “interval”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “interval”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “interval”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* Interval on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Interval in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Anagrams

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## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intervallum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [in.tərˈbal]
* IPA: (Balearic) [in.tərˈval]
* IPA: (Valencia) [in.teɾˈval]

### Noun

interval m (plural intervals)
* interval

### Further reading

* “interval” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “interval”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “interval” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “interval” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɪntɛrval]

### Noun

interval m inan
* (mathematics) interval

#### Derived terms

* interval spolehlivosti
* intervalový
* konfidenční interval
* otevřený interval
* uzavřený interval

### Further reading

* “interval”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “interval”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪntərvɑl/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

interval n (plural intervallen, diminutive intervalletje n)
* interval

#### Derived terms

* integratie-interval

#### See also

* tussenruimte

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French intervalle, from Latin intervallum.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

interval n (plural intervale)
* interval

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /intěrʋaːl/
* Hyphenation: in‧ter‧val

### Noun

intèrvāl m (Cyrillic spelling интѐрва̄л)
* interval