The act of installing something (as equipment)

Usage examples of installment.

By early January, 1787, Adams had rushed the first installment of his effort to a London printer.

The Martians counted human lives in four installments, marked by biochemically mediated events.

By the Treaty of London he surrendered virtually all of western France from Calais to the Pyrenees, and agreed to an augmented and catastrophic ransom of 4 million gold ecus, payable at fixed installments, to be guaranteed by the delivery of forty royal and noble hostages, of whom Enguerrand de Coucy was designated as one.

In 1986, however, the bank started to delay payment of letters of credit owed to foreign exporters, and its failure to make installment payments on a syndicated loan of 500 million Eurodollars, forced rescheduling of the debt payments.

Then Aunt Noni gave me some of my weekly allowance that my parents mailed to her in installments.

Aunt Noni gave me some of my weekly allowance that my parents mailed to her in installments.

He had dashed outside, thrown himself down on the curb and riffled through the magazine till he found the second installment of the cliffhanging serial.

Likewise, she was two months behind in the installments on the furniture.

If many serials prove to have this grabbing quality, readers will subscribe rather than take the chance of missing installments.

I could make more money selling stories to The Saturday Evening Post and Collier's, weekly mag­azines full of ads, which published five short stories and an installment of a cliff-hanging serial in every issue.

From then on they were always my favourite monsters and their appearances in the first two installments of the Peladon saga (The Curse of Peladon, 1972 and The Monster of Peladon, 1974) further imbued them with a believability and background lacking in the majority of the other `rubber suits' that paraded ad nauseum across the screens of the world.

So, this book and this series are dedicated to my husband and children, my sisters and parents, my sister-authors, and the many book clubs and readers groups that keep me so thoroughly engaged in developing the next installment.

In the story that now came to Enoch' s mind, the first installment of the serial had ended with the mightily thewed hero trapped at the bottom of a very deep pit floored with poison-tipped stakes as a horde of coral snakes slithered toward him, brackish water was pumped into the pit and was rising rapidly, his left arm was broken, he was without weapon, and a man-eating Sumatran black panther peered over the lip of the pit, watching him closely.

In the story that now came to Enoch s mind, the first installment of the serial had ended with the mightily thewed hero trapped at the bottom of a very deep pit floored with poison-tipped stakes as a horde of coral snakes slithered toward him, brackish water was pumped into the pit and was rising rapidly, his left arm was broken, he was without weapon, and a man-eating Sumatran black panther peered over the lip of the pit, watching him closely.

Interviews were over, the camera-crew had gone back to the studio to edit the next installment of the show.