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intervals

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for intervals.

Editorial note

Minimum intervals of 15 minutes and the inability to run jobs on a set of existing machines (i.e.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A period of time.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of intervals gathered in one view.

noun

A period of time.

noun

A distance in space.

noun

(mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for intervals.

noun

A period of time.

noun

A distance in space.

noun

(mathematics) A connected section of the real line which may be empty or have a length of zero.

noun

(sports) half time, a scheduled intermission between the periods of play.

Example sentences

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Minimum intervals of 15 minutes and the inability to run jobs on a set of existing machines (i.e.

2

We did things like count children before/after each activity, run drills at regular (not weekly) intervals, etc.

3

Cleaning at regular intervals keeps the cost down (time) and builds back profit if the first cleaning was discounted.

4

The actual 'moves' are very discrete: they happen at regular intervals and rewrite parts of the graph in one go.

5

For extra crispy electronic warfare, that same add-on could issue GET requests at randomly selected intervals.

6

The FFT is one cycle of a Discrete Fourier Transform, and since this data is both discrete and in regular intervals, it should behave identical to just sampling an audio signal.

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Confidence intervals are based on both the sample size and the standard deviation.

8

Tracking works well for both parties, as they know where the package was within ~2 hour intervals and then where/when to expect it.

9

In particular, it's kind of cool that you can do computations with little 8-bit intervals, and possibly circumvent doing more expensive computations (e.g.

10

That's fine, but then you're representing dyadic intervals, not real numbers.

11

Anyway, point is, the presentations are kind of flashy and misleading - and you're right, you can't represent any real number (just finitely representable dyadic intervals)...

12

At the pool where I worked, we'd have numerous lifeguards on duty at a time, rotating between the lifeguard chairs at fifteen-minute intervals.

Quote examples

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You're either cherry-picking your intervals or have a very weird definition of "progress".

2

Indeed it is and machine learning not being "real statistics" but ad-hoc methodologies (based on statistics but not being statistics) doesn't give confidence intervals etc.

3

The problem is the cost of Qt itself for commercial development - unless I'm misreading the Qt website I might choke and drown on the cost of a developer license for Qt ("1x Qt for Application Development ($350/Interval )") and (" This subscription is automatically invoiced at 1 months Intervals").

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Honnestly, I very much like the Wikipedia introductory paragraph on time: "Time is a measure in which events can be ordered from the past through the present into the future, and also the measure of durations of events and the intervals between them" [4] I think time is just a measure used when describing dynamic systems (where past, present, and future make sense).

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use intervals in a sentence?

Minimum intervals of 15 minutes and the inability to run jobs on a set of existing machines (i.e.

What does intervals mean?

A period of time.

What part of speech is intervals?

intervals is commonly used as noun.