INSTALLMENT

I. noun also instalment Date: 1589 installation 1, II. noun also instalment Etymology: alteration of earlier estallment payment by ~, from estall to arrange payments by ~, from Anglo-French estaler, from estal station, stall, division of a stage, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German stal place, stall Date: 1776 one of the parts into which a debt is divided when payment is made at intervals, 2. one of several parts (as of a publication) presented at intervals, one part of a serial story, ~ adjective