interval

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 18.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A distance in space.
2. noun A period of time.

   the interval between contractions during childbirth

3. noun The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
4. noun A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
5. noun An intermission.
6. noun half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.
7. noun Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play.

Similar words

time interval separation musical interval period duration spacing proximity timing interim meanwhile

Often followed by

of between is for in and from the to

Word family

intervallic intervals