Sekirov Dictionary

interrupt

/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/

verb 3
noun 1
forms 5

verb3

•
to suddenly get in the way of someone who is talking or of an activity, so that it stops
- A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
•
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
•
To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.

noun1

•
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.

forms

interrupted · interrupting · interrupteth · interrupts · interruptest

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