0 one of several parts into which a story, plan, or amount of money owed has been divided, so that each part happens or is paid at different times until the end or total is reached:
1 one of a number of payments that you make over a period of time to pay for something that you can use while you are paying for it:
We paid for the car in monthly installments over two years.
a TV miniseries with five installments
2 → instalment
We are currently working on the third installment of the treebank which will continue to diversify our data sources.
The first installment appeared in 1994 to considerable critical acclaim, notably for its 13-page coverage of the/-word.
One claims the money was paid as rent while the other insists that it was an installment to repay the loan.
The result of this was the installment of a system of equal representation of religious groups in the universities.
The commercialization of science is therefore the latest installment of the neoliberal agenda.
Morphological errors abound, as in "the installment of durable institutions" (191), "this kind of statements" (188).
The forms of sexuality represented from installment to installment, and the ways in which they are represented evolve over the course of the novel's serialization.
Thus, the total minimum funding contribution would be the $11 million normal cost plus the $500,000 installment on the deficit for a total of $11.5 million.
