interrupt
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- interrumpt (archaic), interroupt (rare), interrout (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/ (verb)
(verb)Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌpt (verb)
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/ (noun)
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧rupt
Verb
[edit]interrupt (third-person singular simple present interrupts, present participle interrupting, simple past and past participle interrupted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- Do not interrupt me in my course.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
Synonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action
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to assert an exceptional condition
computing: to assert that an exceptional condition must be handled
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Noun
[edit]interrupt (plural interrupts)
- (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
- The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
Hyponyms
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[edit]an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease
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Further reading
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interrupt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “interrupt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “interrupt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “interrupt”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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