interrupt
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Synonyms: interupt, intercept, intercut, incorrupt, interrupts, internut
Antonyms: interupt, intercept, intercut, incorrupt, interrupts, internut
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Verb
- 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.
- 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.
Noun
- 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.
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