Definition of Interval

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Interval

A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.

Space of time between any two points or events; as, the interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and the accession of Charles II.

A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.

Difference in pitch between any two tones.

Alt. of Intervale

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Interval Quotations

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Marshall McLuhan

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
Walter Bagehot

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.
John C. Calhoun

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
Georges Clemenceau

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
W. Somerset Maugham

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Samuel Alexander

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
John Barrymore

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Don Marquis

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate.
Swami Sivananda

Interval Translations

interval in Dutch is interval, tussenruimte
interval in German is Intervall, Zeitabstand, Intervall
interval in Italian is spazio
interval in Norwegian is mellomrom, pause
interval in Portuguese is intervalo
interval in Spanish is intervalo
interval in Swedish is mellanakt, paus, intervall

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