1. instalment(n = noun.communication) episode, installment - a part of a broadcast serial;
is a kind of broadcast, program, programme
is a part of serial, series
has particulars: cliffhanger
2. instalment(n = noun.communication) installment - a part of a published serial;
is a kind of text, textual matter
is a part of serial, serial publication, series
has particulars: fascicle, fascicule
3. instalment(n = noun.act) installation, installing, installment - the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes"
is a kind of beginning, commencement, start
Derived form verb instal1
1. The act of installing; installation. [1913 Webster]
"Take oaths from all kings and magistrates at their installment, to do impartial justice by law." [1913 Webster]
2. The seat in which one is placed. [1913 Webster]
"The several chairs of order, look, you scour; . . .
Each fair installment, coat, and several crest
With loyal blazon, evermore be blest." [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]
4. a part of a broadcast serial. [WordNet 1.5]
5. a part of a published serial. [WordNet 1.5]
instalment, n. (US installment)
1 a sum of money due as one of several usu. equal payments for something, spread over an agreed period of time.
2 any of several parts, esp. of a television or radio serial or a magazine story, published or shown in sequence at intervals.
Idiom:
instalment plan payment by instalments, esp. hire purchase.
Etymology:
alt. f. obs. estallment f. AF estalement f. estaler fix: prob. assoc. with INSTALLATION