{ In"ter*val (?), In"ter*vale (?), } n. A tract of low
ground between hills, or along the
banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or
by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills. Cf. Bottom, n.,
7. [Local, U. S.]
The woody intervale just beyond the marshy land.
The Century.
In"ter*val (?), n. [L. intervallum; inter between + vallum a wall: cf. F. intervalle. See Wall.]
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 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.
At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between; now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at
intervals." Tennyson. -- Augmented interval (Mus.),
an interval increased by half a step or half
a tone.
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