Interrupt

Verb

 * 1) to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
 * A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
 * 1)  To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
 * The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.

Antonyms

 * continue
 * resume

Related terms

 * interrupter
 * interruption

Noun

 * 1)  An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
 * The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

Adverbs for Interrupt
rudely; joyously; hastily; frequently; blatantly; judiciously; indignantly; earnestly; conveniently; peremptorily; momentarily; irrelevantly; abruptly; vaguely; temporarily; prematurely; spasmodically; repetitiously.

Thesaurus
arrest, barge in, blow it, bottle up, break, break in, break in on, break off, butt in, cease, check, chime in, chip in, countercheck, curb, cut in, cut off, cut short, dam up, damp, dampen, defer, delay, detain, disarrange, discontinue, disjoin, disrupt, disturb, end, go off half-cocked, halt, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, horn in, impede, inhibit, intercept, interfere, interfere with, intermeddle, intermit, intervene, intrude, keep back, keep in check, meddle, oppose, postpone, punctuate, put in, repress, resist, restrain, retard, scotch, set back, slacken, snap the thread, snub, speak inopportunely, speak too late, stall, stay, stop, suppress, suspend, take a break, terminate

Etymology
From interruptus:, from interrumpere:, from inter: + rumpere:.

Verb

 * Arabic: قاطع
 * Catalan: interrompre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 打斷, 打断, 插嘴, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: interrompi
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (diakópto)


 * Interlingua: interrumper
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,  перебивать , перебить ,   ,  ,  , помешать
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Volapük: ropön


 * Japanese: 割り込む


 * Russian: ,


 * : అడ్డుకొను (aDDukonu)

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: διακοπή (diakopí)


 * Japanese: 割り込み (warikomi)
 * Portuguese: congelar (Brazil)
 * Russian:

Derived terms

 * hardware interrupt
 * interrupt handler
 * non-maskable interrupt, NMI
 * software interrupt