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interval
A space between two objects, points, or units.

The hundred-degree interval gave the new scale the name centigrade from the Latin centum, "hundred" and gradus, "step".

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(the hundred-degree temperature interval gave us the name scale of centigrade from the Latin centum, "hundred" and gradus, "step")