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Interval vs Diapente - What's the difference?

interval | diapente |

As nouns the difference between interval and diapente

is that interval is a distance in space while diapente is the interval of the fifth.

interval

English

(wikipedia interval)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A distance in space.
  • * Milton
    • 'Twixt host and host but narrow space was left, / A dreadful interval .
  • A period of time.
    • the interval between contractions during childbirth
  • (music) The difference (a ratio or logarithmic measure) in pitch between two notes, often referring to those two pitches themselves (otherwise known as a dyad).
  • (mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.
  • (chiefly, British) An intermission.
  • (sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Spain made three substitutions at the interval , sending on former Arsenal captain Fabregas, Chelsea's Juan Mata and Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina for Xavi, David Silva and Casillas.}}
  • (cricket) Either of the two breaks, at lunch and tea, between the three sessions of a day's play

    • Hyponyms

    * (mathematics) open interval, half-open interval, closed interval

    Related terms

    * interval class * interval cycle

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    diapente

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (music, obsolete) The interval of the fifth.
  • (medicine, obsolete) A composition of five ingredients.
  • * 1816 , Race-horses, method of preparing for running'', entry in ''Encyclopædia Perthensis , 2nd Edition, Volume 18, page 571,
    • If the horse be in good fle?h and ?pirits when taken up for its month?s preparation, the diapente mu?t be omitted; and the chief bu?ine?s will be to give him good food, and ?o much exerci?e as will keep him in wind, without over?weating him or exhau?ting his ?pirits.
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