interval

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Distance between

Nouns — interval, interspace; separation, disjunction; break, fracture, gap; hole, opening; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, incision, leak; haha, gorge, defile, ravine, coulee, canyon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, firth, frith, strait, gulch, gully; pass, furrow; parenthesis (see between); void (see absence). See depth, incompleteness, discontinuance.

Verbs — set at intervals, separate, space, gape, open.

Adjectives — with an interval, far between; spaced.

Adverbs — at intervals, discontinuously.

Antonyms, see contact, completion, continuity.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. period, interlude, interim; see pause 1 , 2 , period 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

pause, rest, break, recess, intermission, hiatus, interim, gap, space, period, spell, lull.

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(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun A space or interval between objects or points: gap, interspace, interstice, separation. See OPEN.