Dictionary Definition
installment
Noun
1 a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at
regular intervals
2 a part of a broadcast serial [syn: episode, instalment]
3 a part of a published serial [syn: instalment]
4 the act of installing something (as equipment);
"the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, instalment]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Alternative spellings
- installment (US)
- instalment (Commonwealth)
Pronunciation
- ĭn-stôlʹmənt, /ɪnˈstɔːlmənt/, /In"stO:lm@nt/
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
- The act of installing; installation.
- Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law. Milton.
- 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
Translations
act of installing; installation
- Dutch: installatie
- Finnish: asennus
- French: installation
- Spanish: instalación
obsolete: seat in which one is placed
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
- 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.
- a part of a broadcast or published serial.
- 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"
Translations
portion of debt
- Dutch: afbetaling, schijf
- Finnish: osamaksuerä, lyhennyserä
- German: Rate
- Swedish: avbetalning, amortering
- Telugu: వాయిదా (vaayidaa), విడత (viData)
part of a serial
- Dutch: aflevering
- Finnish: jakso, osa
- French: épisode
- German: Folge
Extensive Definition
An instalment or installment in American
English usually refers to either:
- An instalment in a television or radio series. See episode
- An instalment is also a term used in the Commonwealth to refer to monetary payments when hiring an object. See hire purchase
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accedence, accession, acquitment, acquittal, acquittance, adjunct, amortization, amortizement, anchorage, article, binder, book, cash, cash payment, chapter, clause, clearance, colonization, column, coming out, component, contingent, coronation, cross section,
curtain raiser, debt service, debut, defrayal, defrayment, deposit, detachment, detail, disbursal, discharge, division, dole, doling out, down payment,
earnest, earnest money,
embarkation,
embarkment, enthronement, establishment, fascicle, first appearance,
fixation, floating, flotation, foundation, fraction, hire purchase, hire
purchase plan, inaugural address, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment
plan, instatement,
interest payment, introduction, investiture, item, launching, liquidation, livraison, lodgment, maiden speech,
monthly payments, mooring, never-never, opener, paragraph, parcel, part, particular, passage, paying, paying off, paying out,
paying up, payment,
payment in kind, payoff,
peopling, percentage, phrase, placement, plantation, population, portion, preliminary, prepayment, quadrant, quarter, quarterly payments,
quittance, quota, random sample, regular
payments, remainder,
remittance, retirement, sample, sampling, satisfaction, section, sector, segment, serial, settlement, settling, share, sinking-fund payment, spot
cash, subdivision,
subgroup, subspecies, taking office,
unveiling, verse, volume, weekly
payments