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発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntɚvəl/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəvəl/
• ハイフネーション: in‧ter‧val

名詞

interval (複数形 intervals)

1. A distance in space.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval.

   • 1666 September 8, The London Gazette:

     [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 Rubbish, and so continuing it set even through those spaces […]

2. A period of time.

   the interval between contractions during childbirth

3. (music) The difference (a ratio または logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
4. (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
5. (chiefly Britain) An intermission.
6. (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
   • 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Spain made three substitutions at the interval, sending on former Arsenal captain Fabregas, Chelsea's Juan Mata and Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina for Xavi, David Silva and Casillas.

7. (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

下位語

• (数学): open interval, half-open interval, closed interval, sub-interval/subinterval,

派生語

Further reading

• “interval”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “interval”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• interval at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Interval on Wikipedia.
• Interval in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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