interval

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a period of time between two events.

   There was a long interval between the two phone calls.

2. 2
   noun

   a short break between the parts of a play, film, or concert.

   We bought ice cream during the interval.

3. 3
   noun

   the difference in pitch between two musical notes.

   The interval between the two notes is an octave.

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”).

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