Installment

Quick meaning: Installment is a noun meaning (publishing, media) A part of a published or broadcast serial.

Meaning

(publishing, media) A part of a published or broadcast serial.

More Meanings

1. The act of installing; installation.
2. 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.
3. (banking, finance) Any of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equal in amount (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), and payment of which takes place at regular intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.
4. (obsolete) The seat in which one is placed.

Example Sentences

Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law.

It is a serial story which we are all reading, and which grows in vital interest with each successive installment.

Granted, this was but the first installment in the long process of “hatching” and mastering a dragon egg, but it was a good start.

Not to give rise to suspicion, I drank when they were looking, and when able to do it unperceived, I quietly deposited the contents, by installments, under the table.

Word Forms

• installments
• instalment

Synonyms for installment

Depending on context, synonyms include episode, part, investiture, investment, installation, instalment.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include episode, instalment, installation, installing, chapter, timeline.

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