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interval

[in-ter-vuhl] / ˈɪn tər vəl /


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Carter provided one of the best examples of quickly going from negative to positive when he found himself 4-0 down to John Higgins at the mid-session interval, gaining just 37 points in four brutal frames.

From BBC • Apr. 26, 2026

Smartphones “have made it possible to fill in, immediately, an interval of emptiness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

In a study published in the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and his collaborators describe a 550 million-year-old sea sponge fossil that falls squarely within this missing interval.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and T. Rowe’s Oak Hill Advisors are raising money for interval funds, a different private-credit format than nontraded BDCs.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

In the Pythagorean system, all tuning is based on the interval of the pure fifth.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones




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