Interval
noun
The amount of time between two events.
We waited for an interval of 30 minutes between the two performances.
Often appears as...
- time interval
- interval between events
noun
A break between the parts of a play, movie, or concert.
During the interval, we stepped out for some fresh air.
noun
In mathematics, it is a set of numbers between two values.
The interval from 3 to 7 includes the numbers 4, 5, and 6.
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Technical
noun
In music, it is the difference in pitch between two notes.
The interval between C and E is a major third.
Often appears as...
- musical interval
- fifth interval
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In sports, it is period of rest between physical exercises.
Interval training alternates low and high-intensity exercises.
Often appears as...
- interval training
- rest interval
noun
The amount of time between two events.
We waited for an interval of 30 minutes between the two performances.
Often appears as...
- time interval
- interval between events
noun
A break between the parts of a play, movie, or concert.
During the interval, we stepped out for some fresh air.
noun
In mathematics, it is a set of numbers between two values.
The interval from 3 to 7 includes the numbers 4, 5, and 6.
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In music, it is the difference in pitch between two notes.
The interval between C and E is a major third.
Often appears as...
- musical interval
- fifth interval
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In sports, it is period of rest between physical exercises.
Interval training alternates low and high-intensity exercises.
Often appears as...
- interval training
- rest interval
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Time Gap
Indicates a measured pause or duration between activities or events.
The train arrives at regular intervals of 15 minutes.
Pro Tip 2/2Scheduled Breaks
Used for planned pauses during events, often to allow for rest or transitions.
There is a 10-minute interval between lectures.
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is we have them take a series of attention tests. We track their attention at the beginning of some kind of high-stress interval, and then two months later, we track them again, and we want to see if there's a difference. Is there any benefit of offering them mindfulness training? Can we protect against the lapses in attention
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And then we can collect our seawater samples in these large bottles. So we start at the bottom, which can be over four kilometers deep just off our continental shelf, and we take samples at regular intervals right up to the surface. We take the seawater back on the deck,
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or practical utility, but because they authenticated the belief that numbers were the sacred language of the universe. In the repeated patterns of algebraic formulas and geometric shapes, the orbits of the planets, and the harmonious intervals of musical tones,
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Building the impossible:...
carrying ten workers to their deaths. Once the towers were complete, workers spun the cables in place, hung suspenders at 50-foot intervals, and laid down the concrete roadway. The bridge was finished, but there was still one more task painting it.
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What does your time feel...
amount of time passed relative to one's age varies when you're five years old one year is twenty percent of your life but when you're 50 years old one year is only two percent of your life we may be constantly comparing intervals
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where no matter which floor is correct, it takes up to the same number of throws to find it. We want each interval to be one floor smaller than the last. This equation can help us solve for the first floor we need to start with
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are our comms with the ship on the surface at regular intervals we communicate with the team on board to convey our depth whether we're going up or down or staying level and the status of our life-support systems
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and look over the span of history, at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it.
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brought that into the picture I just saw a normal dog come on that is just inspire and motivate her to move forward you're seeing for daddy some thanks a Bixel interval of daddy with secret
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How to tame your...
is we have them take a series of attention tests. We track their attention at the beginning of some kind of high-stress interval, and then two months later, we track them again, and we want to see if there's a difference. Is there any benefit of offering them mindfulness training? Can we protect against the lapses in attention
Video examples
The best stats you've...
confidence interval which was pretty narrow and I got happy of course at one point eight right answer out of five possible that means that there was a place for a professor of international health and for my course but one life late night when I was compiling the report I really realized my discovery I
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How pollution is...
And then we can collect our seawater samples in these large bottles. So we start at the bottom, which can be over four kilometers deep just off our continental shelf, and we take samples at regular intervals right up to the surface. We take the seawater back on the deck,
Video examples
The murder of ancient...
or practical utility, but because they authenticated the belief that numbers were the sacred language of the universe. In the repeated patterns of algebraic formulas and geometric shapes, the orbits of the planets, and the harmonious intervals of musical tones,
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Building the impossible:...
carrying ten workers to their deaths. Once the towers were complete, workers spun the cables in place, hung suspenders at 50-foot intervals, and laid down the concrete roadway. The bridge was finished, but there was still one more task painting it.
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What does your time feel...
amount of time passed relative to one's age varies when you're five years old one year is twenty percent of your life but when you're 50 years old one year is only two percent of your life we may be constantly comparing intervals
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Can you solve the egg...
where no matter which floor is correct, it takes up to the same number of throws to find it. We want each interval to be one floor smaller than the last. This equation can help us solve for the first floor we need to start with
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Journey 1000m Below The...
are our comms with the ship on the surface at regular intervals we communicate with the team on board to convey our depth whether we're going up or down or staying level and the status of our life-support systems
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Rob Hopkins: Transition...
and look over the span of history, at what we might call the petroleum interval, it's a short period in history where we've discovered this extraordinary material, and then based a whole way of life around it.
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Who's Your Daddy? PIPE...
brought that into the picture I just saw a normal dog come on that is just inspire and motivate her to move forward you're seeing for daddy some thanks a Bixel interval of daddy with secret
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Scott Turow
American Novelist
Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it.
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Joshua Henry
American Actor
I love being in the gym and am training six days a week; I do a lot of high-intensity interval training so that my heart rate gets really high, and I practice, as I'm doing that, taking really deep breaths, and that really helps in a song and in a style of music where you have to sing long, flowing lines.
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Swami Sivananda
Indian Philosopher
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
In fast moving fields like cancer, where doctors tailor treatments based on evidence that's constantly evolving, two years can be an eternity of waiting to learn about important science. For some patients, that interval can be fatal.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
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Katharine Butler Hathaway
American Author
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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William Allen White
American Editor
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
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Sean Hayes
American Actor
So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.
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Mark Walport
British Scientist
There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.
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Thomas Browne
British Scientist
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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Scott Turow
American Novelist
Presumed Innocent' was written over a six to seven year period with intervals in between where I was figuring out the end of the book and writing other stuff... My life as a writer was carried on against the odds. I had written four unpublished novels by then... as a writer of fiction, I hadn't gotten very far. I just wanted to do it.
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Joshua Henry
American Actor
I love being in the gym and am training six days a week; I do a lot of high-intensity interval training so that my heart rate gets really high, and I practice, as I'm doing that, taking really deep breaths, and that really helps in a song and in a style of music where you have to sing long, flowing lines.
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Swami Sivananda
Indian Philosopher
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
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Scott Gottlieb
American Public Servant
In fast moving fields like cancer, where doctors tailor treatments based on evidence that's constantly evolving, two years can be an eternity of waiting to learn about important science. For some patients, that interval can be fatal.
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Winston Churchill
British Statesman
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
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Katharine Butler Hathaway
American Author
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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William Allen White
American Editor
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
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Sean Hayes
American Actor
So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.
Quote examples
Mark Walport
British Scientist
There is usually a long interval between important scientific discoveries and impact on human health.
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Thomas Browne
British Scientist
Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
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