Word Finder - interval

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A distance in space.

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A period of time.

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the interval between contractions during childbirth

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The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).

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A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.

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An intermission.

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Half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play

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Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

An interval of three years without rain has been known.

After an interval of two years they tried to capture him and failed.

A certain abatement or remission of the fever takes place, with or without sweating, but there is no true intermission or interval of absolute apyrexia.

Hence for sending both a dot and a dash, reverse currents of short duration are sent through the line, but the interval between the reversal is three times as great for the dash as for the dot.

It is not enough even to be able to speak the language of that nation by which they are written, for there is a memorable interval between the spoken and the written language, the language heard and the language read.

He worked with other dramatists in a long series of plays, with an interval of six years on the National, until the revolution of 1848.

Pierre concluded that this also was essential, and after a short interval followed her.

But in OS measures index error can be eliminated by bisecting both stars with the same web (or different webs of known interval fixed on the same frame), and not employing the fixed web at all.

Allowing for this interval of military service, he applied himself exclusively for twenty-four years to his legal work.

The arrested prophetic movement of Jeremiah and Deutero-Isaiah reappears in John the Baptist and Jesus after an interval of more than five centuries.

His kinsman, Aegisthus, who in the interval had seduced his wife Clytaemnestra, invited him to a banquet at.

He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take, and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.

Dots and dashes are distinguished by the interval between the sounds of the instrument in precisely the same way as they are distinguished when reading from the recorder by sound.

The interval of secession was perhaps the happiest in his life.

The last is printed in five colours, the ground is shown in contours of io metres interval and grey stippling.

Apparatus is added to some dynamometers by means of which a curve showing the variations of P on a distance base is drawn automatically, the area of the diagram representing the work done; with others, integrating apparatus is combined, from which the work done during a given interval may be read off directly.

We see lightning before we hear the thunder which spreads out from the flash, and the more distant the flash the longer the interval between the two.

This is the interval between the arrival of an event and his perception that it has arrived, or it may be the interval between arrival and his record of the arrival.

When the interval between a flash and a report is measured, the personal equations for the two arrivals are, in all probability, different, that for the flash being most likely less than that for the sound.

To eliminate wind as far as possible reciprocal firing was adopted, the interval between the two firings being only a few seconds.

An observer with his ear to the tube noted the interval between the arrival of flash and sound.

In large halls the words of a speaker are echoed or reflected from flat walls or roof or floor; and these reflected sounds follow the direct sounds at such an interval that syllables and words overlap, to the confusion of the speech and the annoyance of the audience.

For this purpose the axis is furnished at its upper part with a screw working into a toothed wheel, and driving it round, during each revolution of the plate, through a space equal to the interval between two teeth.

All experiments in frequency show that two notes, forming a definite musical interval, have their frequencies always in the same ratio wherever in the musical scale the two notes are situated.

The third 4= 5 X Z X z or ascent through an interval 4, which has no special name, and a descent through two octaves, and so on.

The interval between and 44 = 44 - -- 8 01 is termed a " comma," and is so small that the same note on an instrument may serve for both.

But the interval between 4 and -4-`56 4-14 is quite perceptible, and on the piano, for instance, a separate string must be provided above f.

This note is f sharp, and the interval t is termed a sharp.

If we start with F as key-note, besides a small difference at we have as the fourth from it 3 X 4 = y, making with B = I R 5 an interval and requiring a new note, B flat.

It makes with it an interval = 1 w 6 - j 2 rather less than a comma; so that the same string in the piano may serve for both.

E flat as key-note introduces another flat, and so on, each flat not quite coinciding with a sharp but at a very small interval from it.

His remarkable result that two waves give some sense of pitch, in fact a tone with wavelength equal to the interval between the waves, has been confirmed by other observers.

According to this theory, then, when a pure tone is received the auditory apparatus corresponding to that tone is most excited, but the apparatus on each side of it is also excited, though by a rapidly diminishing amount, as the interval increases.

Thus, two low notes of 32 and 30 vibrations respectively, whose interval is therefore la or 12-, i.e.

As the interval between two tones, and consequently the number of beats, increases the effect on the ear becomes more and more unpleasant.

Thus the interval b'c" with frequencies 495 and 528, giving 33 beats in a second, is very dissonant.

But the interval b bc" gives nearly twice as many beats and is not nearly so dissonant.

Again b'c" and CG have each 33 beats per second, yet the latter interval is practically smooth and consonant.

If the pitch is raised still further the dissonance lessens, and when there are about 130 beats per second the interval is consonant.

If all tones were pure, dissonance at this part of the scale would not occur if the interval were more than a third.

Thus, if a note of frequency 64 is sounded, and if all the successive overtones are present, the difference of frequency will be 64, and this is an unpleasant interval when we get to the middle of the scale, say to overtones 256 and 320 or to 512 and 576.

But the interval is still dissonant, and this is to be explained by the fact that the two tones unite to give a third tone of the frequency of the beats, easily heard when the two primary tones are loud.

But probably in practice there is not a sufficient interval between source and hearer for these tones to grow into any importance, and they can at most be only a small addition to those formed in the source or the ear.

Thus the further pursuit of the Russians could only be undertaken after an interval of re-organization by the northernmost troops of the 5th and 3rd Armies.

At the beginning and end of each chapter occur puzzle-canons, wherein the primary part or parts alone are given, and the reader has to discover the canon that fixes the period and the interval at which the response is to enter.

Returning to England in 1829, after an interval of two years' travel, Elphinstone retained in his retirement and enfeebled health an important influence on public affairs.

The shunted voltameter was then inserted in series with the electric supply mains leading to the house or building taking electric energy, and the current which passed dissolved the zinc from one plate and deposited it upon the other, so that after a certain interval of time had elapsed the altered weight of the plates enabled the quantity of electricity to be determined from the known fact that an electric current of one ampere, flowing for one hour, removes 1.2533 grammes of zinc from a solution of sulphate of zinc. Hence the quantity in amperehours passing through the electrolytic cell being known and the fraction of the whole quantity taken by the cell being known, the quantity supplied to the house was determined.

The interval corresponding to the octave being divided into seven equal parts, each about 14 semitone, it follows that Siamese music sounds strange in Western ears.

In the interval between these visits he fought for his country during the war of the second partition, and would subsequently have served under Kosciuszko also had he not been arrested on his way to Poland at Brussels by the Austrian government.

In a quiet interval, the Lower Eocene plant-beds of Glenarm and Ballypalady were formed in lakes, where iron-ores also accumulated.