noun
definition
An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
example
The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
verb
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To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
example
A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
definition
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
example
The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
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To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
example
The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
Examples of interrupts in a Sentence
Opposite the primary xylems, the cambium either (a) forms parenchyma on both sides, making a broad, secondary (principal) ray, which interrupts the vascular ring and is divided at its inner extremity by the islet of primary xylem; or (b) forms secondary xylem and phloem in the ordinary way, completing the vascular ring.
No grave note, warning us that the pleasures of this earth are fleeting, that the visible world is but a symbol of the invisible, that human life is a probation for the life beyond, interrupts the tinkling music as of castanets and tripping feet which gives a novel charm to these unique relics of the 13th century.
This group of laws clearly formed no part of the original narrative of P since it interrupts the connexion of chap. viii.
Chapter vii., then, interrupts the development of the author's plan, but the interruption is deliberate.
The ROC can have interrupts to the readout transputer enabled or disabled.
This is automatic if the shell variable notify is set. onintr onintr - onintr label Control the action of the shell on interrupts.
What is said of this affair interrupts the original context of chap. xviii., to which the insertion has been clumsily fitted by an interpolation in the second half of ver.
The exhortation to remember the Creator in the days of youth, though it is to be retained in the margin as a pious editorial addition, here interrupts the line of thought.
As the VDG is stopped, horizontal sync interrupts are not passed on to the CPU during this ' padding '.
That movement, however, interrupts sleep and prevents relaxation.
Upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) is a breathing condition that interrupts sleep.
The nighttime breathing problem interrupts sleep because breathing stops and the sleeper gasps for air.
Mouth injuries can result in compression of the airway, which interrupts breathing and can be life-threatening.
Deficit-A shortfall or slowdown in development, possibly related to a disorder that slows or interrupts normal childhood development.
This placement creates sha chi or bad chi because it interrupts or obstructs the natural energy flow.
The cycle of chi energy as it manifests throughout the world is one that mankind disturbs and interrupts with construction and habitation.
The warmed air of summer produces an area of low pressure in the west-central United States, which interrupts the belt of high pressure that planetary conditions alone would form around the earth about latitude 30; hence there is a tendency of the summer winds to blow inward from the northern Pacific over the Cordilleras toward the continental centre, and from the trades of the torrid Atlantic up the Mississippi Valley; conversely in winter time, the cold air over the lands produces a large area of high pressure from which the winds tend to flow outward; thus repelling the westerly winds of the northern Pacific and greatly intensifying the outflow southward to the Gulf of Mexico and eastward to the Atlantic. As a result of these seasonal alternations of temperature and pressure there is something of a monsoon tendency developed in the winds of the Mississippi Valley, southerly infiowing winds prevailing in summer and northerly outfiowing winds in winter; but the general tendency to inflow and outflow is greatly modified by the relief of the lands, to which we next turn.
The exception handler will be called on a locked stack with interrupts disabled.
Tho this poem interrupts the sequence of sonnets, it, too, is most economical in its formal iambic quatrains.
As the VDG is stopped, horizontal sync interrupts are not passed on to the CPU during this ' padding ' .