noun
1. a payment of part of a debt; usually paid at regular intervals (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms: ↑payment
2. a part of a broadcast serial
• Syn: ↑episode, ↑instalment
• Hyponyms: ↑cliffhanger
3. the act of installing something (as equipment)
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the telephone installation took only a few minutes
• Syn: ↑installation, ↑installing, ↑instalment
• Derivationally related forms: ↑instal (for: ↑instalment), ↑install, ↑install (for: ↑installing), ↑instal (for: ↑installing), ↑install (for: ↑installation)
• Hypernyms: ↑beginning, ↑start, ↑commencement
4. a part of a published serial
• Syn: ↑instalment
• Hypernyms: ↑text, ↑textual matter
• Part Holonyms: ↑series, ↑serial, ↑serial publication
Useful english dictionary. 2012.