Confidence interval is estimated range of values for a population parameter could take in a given <em>confidence level</em>.
It can be represented as M±ME where
M is the point of estimate
ME is the margin of error
Confidence Intervals is measured to deal with <em>uncertainty</em>. For example, 95% confidence interval for a population mean is (25, 35) means that there is 95% chance that population mean is between the values 25 and 35.