[ˈɪntəvl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an intervening time
(e.g: after his departure, there was an interval of many years without any meetings)

- a pause or break in activity
(e.g: an interval of mourning)

- a space between two things; a gap

- the difference in pitch between two sounds


Phrases:
- at intervals

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French entrevalle, based on Latin intervallum ‘space between ramparts, interval’, from inter- ‘between’ + vallum ‘rampart’