Installment
[in-stawl-muh nt] /ɪnˈstɔl mənt/
noun
1.
any of several parts into which a debt or other sum payable is divided for payment at successive fixed times:
to pay for furniture in monthly installments.
2.
a single portion of something furnished or issued by parts at successive times:
a magazine serial in six installments.
[in-stawl-muh nt] /ɪnˈstɔl mənt/
noun
1.
the act of .
2.
the fact of being ; .
n.
“act of installing,” 1580s, from install + -ment. Meaning “arrangement of payment by fixed portions at fixed times” is from 1732, alteration of Anglo-French estaler “fix payments,” from Old French estal “fixed position,” from Old High German stal “standing place” (see stall (n.1)). Figurative sense of “part of a whole produced in advance of the rest” is from 1823.
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