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the breath between two beats, where everything that matters quietly happens
means A space of time or distance between two points, events, or things.
from From Latin intervallum, literally the space "between the ramparts" (inter, "between," plus vallum, "rampart" or palisade). A vallum was the wall of stakes a Roman camp threw up for defense; the intervallum was the gap between that outer wall and the troops inside — a deliberate empty zone. The word marched into English through Old French in the medieval period, shedding its soldiers and keeping only the gap.
- music
- the gap between notes that names the chord
- training
- sprint, recover, repeat — pain rationed for power
- theater
- intermission invented so audiences could pee and gossip
- math
- a span defined entirely by its two edges
- physics
- spacetime distance everyone agrees on, regardless of speed
pomodoro technique — 25-minute work intervals created by francesco cirillo in the late 1980s
interval training — high-intensity workout method with alternating effort periods, popularized by tabata protocol in 1996
musical interval — distance between two pitches, foundational to all western music theory and composition