installment
Meanings
Plural: installments
Noun
- a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals
- a part of a broadcast serial
- a part of a published serial
- the act of installing something (as equipment)
- One of a series of parts, whether equal or unequal to the other parts of the series, of a given entity or a given process, which part presents or is presented at a particular scheduled interval.
- One member of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equated (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), payment of which portions are serially exacted at regularly scheduled intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments of installments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
- A part of a published or broadcast serial.
- The act of installing; installation.
- The seat in which one is placed.
Origin / Etymology
A 1732 alteration of estallment, from Anglo-Norman estaler (“fix payments”), from Old French estal (“fixed position”), from Old High German stal (“stall", "standing place”)
The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.
Synonyms
episode, installation, installing, instalment, investiture, investment, part
Scrabble Score: 13
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