English

Alternative spellings
installment (US)
instalment (Commonwealth)

Pronunciation
ĭn-stôlʹm�nt, /ɪn�st��lm�nt/, /<tt>In"stO:lm@nt</tt>/

Etymology 1
From install, itself from medieval French installer, from medieval Latin installare, from Latin in- + ML stallum 'stall' (from Germanic stal, cfr. infra)

Noun
en-noun

1. The act of installing; installation.

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

1. obsolete The seat in which one is placed.

#:The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . . Each fair installment, coat, and several crest With loyal blazon, evermore be blest. Shakespeare.

Synonyms
investiture, investment
installation

Translations
trans-top|act of installing; installation
Dutch: installatie
Finnish: asennus
French: installation
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Spanish: instalación f
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trans-top|obsolete: seat in which one is placed
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Etymology 2
A 1732 alteration of estallment, from Anglo-Norman estaler "fix payments", from O.Fr. estal "fixed position," itself from Old High German stal "stall, standing place."
:The sense of "part of a whole produced in advance of the rest" is from 1823.

Noun
en-noun

1. A portion of a debt, or sum of money, which is divided into portions that are made payable at different times. Payment by installment is payment by parts at different times, the amounts and times (often equal viz. regular, e.g. mensual) being often definitely stipulated.
2. a part of a broadcast or published serial.
3. anything that is performed in parts, spread in time

:The serial vandal pales when the headmaster says his reluctant confession in installments, dragged out of him during ten interviews, earns him as many weekly bare-bum caning installments, each six of the best and photographed for the next installment of his school paper column "Crime and Punishment"

Synonyms
(portion of a debt):
(part of a broadcast or published serial): episode, part

Translations
trans-top|portion of debt
Dutch: afbetaling, schijf
Finnish: osamaksuerä, lyhennyserä
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Telugu: వాయిదా (vaayidaa), విడత (viData)
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trans-top|part of a serial
Dutch: aflevering
Finnish: jakso, osa
French: épisode
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References
R:Webster 1913
Websters
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