interval : Idioms & Phrases

• noun time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
  twenty-four hours; mean solar day; twenty-four hour period; solar day; day.
  
  • two days later they left
  • they put on two performances every day
  • there are 30,000 passengers per day

WordNet

• coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals." Tennyson.

Webster 1913

• (Mus.), an interval increased by half a step or half a tone.

Webster 1913

• noun an interval that includes its endpoints
  bounded interval.
  

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• noun an interval that includes its endpoints
  bounded interval.
  

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• (Mus.), the distance between two notes of a chord, or two consonant notes.

Webster 1913

• (Mus.), one a semitone less than perfect; as, an imperfect fifth.

Webster 1913

• noun interval between the moon's transit of a particular meridian and the next high tide at that meridian
  

WordNet

• . See Retard, n.

Webster 1913

• noun the difference in pitch between two notes
  interval.
  

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• noun an interval that does not include its endpoints
  open interval.
  

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• noun an interval that is included in another interval
  

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• (Mus.), an interval that exceeds a major or perfect interval by a semitone.

Webster 1913

• noun a definite length of time marked off by two instants
  interval.
  

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• noun an interval that does not include its endpoints
  open interval.
  

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