INTERRUPT meaning: Pause or stop an ongoing activity

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word interrupt:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

interrupt: Merriam-Webster.com
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interrupt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
interrupt: Collins English Dictionary
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Interrupt, interrupt: Wordnik
interrupt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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interrupt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
interrupt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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Interrupt, interrupt: Dictionary.com
interrupt: Online Etymology Dictionary
interrupt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Interrupt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Interrupt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
interrupt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
interrupt: Rhymezone
interrupt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
interrupt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
interrupt: Free Dictionary
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interrupt: Dictionary/thesaurus
interrupt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
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Business (1 matching dictionary)

interrupt: Legal dictionary

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)

interrupt: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
interrupt: CCI Computer
Interrupt: Game Dictionary
interrupt: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
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interrupt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

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Tech (1 matching dictionary)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
▸ verb:  (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
▸ noun:  (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

Similar:

break, break up, cut off, disturb, disrupt, innerup', interturb, perturb, pause, intermit, more...

Opposite:

continue, proceed, maintain, persist, uphold

Types:

hardware interrupt, software interrupt, maskable interrupt, more...

Phrases:

interrupt request, Interrupt handler, interrupt vector, interrupt controller, software interrupt, more...

Adjectives:

disabled, external, maskable, nonmaskable, next, internal, second, single, particular, corresponding, priority

Colors:

red, orange, yellow, black, white, gray, silver, gold, maroon, crimson

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