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interrupción — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • disruption noun A break in the normal flow, order, or continuity of something.
  • interrupt verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
  • interruption noun An act of breaking in on something, or a pause caused by this.
  • outage noun A period during which a service, especially electricity, is not working.

Senses

interrupción is used for these senses in English:

  • disruption An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
  • interrupt (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
  • interruption The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
  • interruption A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.
  • outage A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electrical power supply.

disruption — full definition

  1. noun A break in the normal flow, order, or continuity of something.
  2. noun An event of sustained disorder or breakdown.

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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