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INTERVAL , a space left between the component parts of a continuous series , a pause in continuous action, a period of time intervening between two other points of time or chronological
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French , originally meant a space between the palisades on a rampart (vallum), or between the rampart and the tents of the legionaries. In medical language " interval " is used of the intervening periods between attacks or paroxysms of a disease, particularly of the periods of a rational or normal condition of mind sometimes experienced by an insane person, a " lucid interval "; this phrase frequently occurs in legal documents from the 13th to the 15th centuries, non compos mentis sed gaudet lucidis intervallis. In music " interval " ex-presses the distance in pitch between two or more musical sounds (see Music). Interval, or more commonly " intervale," is used, particularly in North
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