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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

  1. verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
  2. noun Computing: a signal that makes a computer pause its current task to deal with something more urgent.

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