Interrupt — meaning in English
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English meaning
- interrupt verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
Senses
Interrupt is used for these senses in English:
- interrupt (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
- interrupt (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- interrupt request (computing) The act of interrupting any of several hardware processes in a computer.
interrupt — full definition
- verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
- noun Computing: a signal that makes a computer pause its current task to deal with something more urgent.