Phrase Hound found 29 phrases and 3 compound words that contain intervals. The most common are listed below. Open intervals in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 29
- confidence intervalsplural of confidence interval: A range defined such that there is a fixed probability that the value of the measured parameter will fall within the range.
- time intervalsplural of time interval: A period of time with fixed, well-defined limits.
- intervals of timeplural of interval of time: A period of time with fixed, well-defined limits.
- compound intervalsplural of compound interval: An interval that is greater than an octave.
- musical intervalsplural of musical interval: The distance between two notes on the diatonic scale.
- perfect intervalsplural of perfect interval: an interval that is either a unison, fourth, fifth, or an octave
- postmortem intervalsplural of postmortem interval: The amount of time that has elapsed since the death of a person.
- bit intervalsplural of bit interval: The time required to send one signal bit.
- closed intervalsplural of closed interval: an interval in the real number line which contains its supremum and infimum.
- generic intervalsplural of generic interval: the distance between notes only regarding the distance on the staff
- major intervalsplural of major interval: an interval that is either a major second, major third, major sixth, or a major seventh
- minor intervalsplural of minor interval: an interval that is either a minor second, minor third, minor sixth, or a minor seventh
- open intervalsplural of open interval: An interval in the real number line which does not contain its supremum and infimum. If specified by a pair of real numbers, then it consists of all the points on the real line whose values lie strictly between …
- serial intervalsplural of serial interval: In epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases, the time period between the onset of symptoms with the primary patient and the onset of symptoms with the secondary patient (infected by primary).
- surface intervalsplural of surface interval: time spent outside the water (i.e. on the surface) between underwater dives. This time is considered when calculating decompression requirements for the subsequent dive
- unit intervalsplural of unit interval: the interval [0,1], that is the set of all real numbers x such that zero is less than or equal to x and x is less than or equal to one
- vertical intervalsplural of vertical interval: The vertical distance on the ground which separates adjacent contour lines on a map.
- wolf intervalsplural of wolf interval: A particularly dissonant musical interval spanning seven semitones.
- QT intervalsplural of QT interval: A measurement made on an electrocardiogram, calculated as the time from the start of the Q-wave to the end of the T-wave, and approximates to the time taken from when the cardiac ventricles start to contract to when …
- contour intervalsplural of contour interval: The difference in elevation represented by the space between adjacent contour lines
- diminished intervalsplural of diminished interval: An interval that is decreased from either a minor interval or a perfect interval.
- augmented intervalsplural of augmented interval: An interval that is increased one half step from either a major interval or a perfect interval.
- half-open intervalsplural of half-open interval: An interval in the real line which contains one of its endpoints but not the other one: i.e., it either contains its supremum or its infimum but not both.
- Wilson score intervalsplural of Wilson score interval: An improvement over the normal binomial approximation interval in that the actual coverage probability is closer to the nominal value.
- lucid intervalsplural of lucid interval: A temporary improvement in a patient's condition after a traumatic brain injury, after which the condition deteriorates.
Compound words 3
- subintervalsplural of subinterval: Any of several smaller intervals into which a larger one is divided
- hyperintervalsplural of hyperinterval: A box formed of intervals in multiple directions.
- midintervalsplural of midinterval: The midpoint of an interval