'instalment' definitions:
Definition of 'instalment'
(from WordNet)
noun
A part of a broadcast serial [syn: episode, installment, instalment]
noun
A part of a published serial [syn: installment, instalment]
noun
The act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment, instalment]
Definition of 'instalment'
From: GCIDE
- installment \in*stall"ment\, instalment \in*stal"ment\, n.
- 1. The act of installing; installation. [1913 Webster]
- Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The seat in which one is placed. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times; that portion of a debt payed back in any one payment; as, the next installment is due January first. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times being often definitely stipulated. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 4. a part of a broadcast serial. [WordNet sense 1]
- Syn: episode. [WordNet 1.5]
- 5. a part of a published serial. [WordNet sense 2] [WordNet 1.5]