instalment
noun
[ ɪnˈstɔːlm(ə)nt ]
• a sum of money due as one of several equal payments for something, spread over an agreed period of time.
• "the first instalment of a grant for housing"
• any of several parts of something which are published, broadcast, or made public in sequence at intervals.
• "filming the final instalment in his Vietnam trilogy"
Similar:
part,
portion,
section,
segment,
division,
bit,
chapter,
episode,
volume,
issue,
• the process of installing something; installation.
• "instalment will begin early next year"
Origin:
mid 18th century (denoting the arrangement of payment by instalments): alteration of obsolete estalment (probably by association with installation), from Anglo-Norman French estalement, from Old French estaler ‘to fix’.
