augmented interval

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augmented interval - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Interval \In"ter*val\, n. [L. intervallum; inter between +
     vallum a wall: cf. F. intervalle. See Wall.]
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     1. A space between things; a void space intervening between
        any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or
        hills.
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              'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left,
              A dreadful interval.                  --Milton.
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     2. Space of time between any two points or events; as, the
        interval between the death of Charles I. of England, and
        the accession of Charles II.
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     3. A brief space of time between the recurrence of similar
        conditions or states; as, the interval between paroxysms
        of pain; intervals of sanity or delirium.
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     4. (Mus.) Difference in pitch between any two tones.
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     At intervals, coming or happening with intervals between;
        now and then. "And Miriam watch'd and dozed at intervals."
        --Tennyson.
  
     Augmented interval (Mus.), an interval increased by half a
        step or half a tone. Interval