n. 1. One of a number of successive payments in settlement of a debt. 2. a. A portion of something, such as a publication, issued at intervals. b. A chapter or part of a literary work presented serially. [Alteration of obsolete estallment, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French estaler, to place, fix, from estal, place, of Germanic origin; see stel- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] |
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n. See installation. |
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