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interval
1. A space between two objects, points, or units.
2. The amount of time between two specified situations, events, or conditions; an intervening period of time: "There was an interval of 50 years before we saw our uncle again."
3. A period of temporary cessation; a pause: "There were intervals between the blasting sounds of the loud music."
4. One of a series of predetermined distances covered at regular time increments with intermittent periods of rest in an athletic workout.
5. In mathematics: a set of numbers consisting of all the numbers between a pair of given numbers along with either, both, or none of the endpoints; a closed interval, an open interval, a half-open interval, a line segment representing the set of numbers in an interval.
6. Chiefly British: an intermission, as between acts of a play.
7. In music, the difference, usually expressed in the number of steps, between two pitches.
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(an interval of confusion between wars)
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interval
A space between two objects, points, or units.

The hundred-degree interval gave the new scale the name centigrade from the Latin centum, "hundred" and gradus, "step".

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(the hundred-degree temperature interval gave us the name scale of centigrade from the Latin centum, "hundred" and gradus, "step")