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Webster 1913 Edition
Interval
1.
A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects;
as, an
. interval
between two houses or hills’Twixt host and host but narrow space was left,
A dreadful
A dreadful
interval
. Milton.
2.
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.
3.
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.4.
(Mus.)
Difference in pitch between any two tones.
Webster 1828 Edition
Interval
IN'TERVAL
,Noun.
1.
A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as an interval between two columns, between two pickets or palisades, between two houses or walls, or between two mountains or hills.2.
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.' the interval between two wars. Hence we say, an interval of peace.3.
The space of time between two paroxysms of disease, pain or delirium; remission; as an interval of ease, of peace, of reason.4.
The distance between two given sounds in music, or the difference in point of gravity or acuteness.5.
A tract of low or plain ground between hills, or along the banks of rivers,usually alluvial land enriched by the overflowings of rivers, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. [De. Belknap writes this intervale; I think improperly.]