interrupt
English
Alternative forms
- interrumpt (archaic)
- interroupt (rare)
- interrout (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/ (verb)
(verb)Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌpt (verb)
- IPA(key): /ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/ (noun)
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧rupt
Verb
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.
- Shakespeare
- Do not interrupt me in my course.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
- Shakespeare
- (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.
Related terms
Translations
to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action
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to assert an exceptional condition
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Noun
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.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- hardware interrupt
- interrupt handler
- non-maskable interrupt, NMI
- software interrupt
Translations
Further reading
- interrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- interrupt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- interrupt at OneLook Dictionary Search
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