OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 8624

interval

/ˈɪntəvəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
intervalo
A distance in space.
'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval.
[M]any attempts were made to prevent the spreading of it [the fire] by pulling down Houses, and making great Intervals, but all in vain, the Fire seizing upon the Timber and Rubbis…
intervalo
A period of time.
the interval between contractions during childbirth
intervalo
A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
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