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DISTANCE |
Interval (between) |
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ENTRACTE |
Interval between acts of a play |
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INTERJOIST |
The space or interval between two joists. |
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INTERPILASTER |
The interval or space between two pilasters. |
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INTERLAPSE |
The lapse or interval of time between two events. |
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INTERIM |
The meantime; time intervening; interval between events,
etc. |
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INTERSOMNIOUS |
Between the times of sleeping; in an interval of
wakefulness. |
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SPACE |
Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time;
duration; time. |
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ENTR'ACTE |
The interval of time which occurs between the
performance of any two acts of a drama. |
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COMMA |
A small interval (the difference between a major and minor
half step), seldom used except by tuners. |
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PERISYSTOLE |
The interval between the diastole and systole of the
heart. It is perceptible only in the dying. |
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SECOND |
The interval between any tone and the tone which is
represented on the degree of the staff next above it. |
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INTERVAL |
A space between things; a void space intervening between
any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills. |
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MEDIANT |
The third above the keynote; -- so called because it
divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds. |
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INFRAMEDIAN |
Of or pertaining to the interval or zone along the sea
bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms. |
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QUARTAN |
An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day,
reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between
paroxysms is two days. |
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DAY |
The time of light, or interval between one night and the next;
the time between sunrise and sunset, or from dawn to darkness; hence,
the light; sunshine. |
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INTERSTICE |
An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the
plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the
reception of the various degrees of orders. |
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TONE |
The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the
diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone
too flat; raise it a tone. |
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OCTAVE |
The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and
eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of
five tones and two semitones. |
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TENTH |
The interval between any tone and the tone represented on
the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and
three of the octave above; the octave of the third. |
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UPLAND |
High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals
which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land
which is gene... |