interrupt
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (4)interrupts, interrupted, interrupting
- make a break in“We interrupt the program for the following messages”Synonyms: disruptbreak upcut offMore general discontinue, stopMore specific pause, stop, cut, interject, chime in, take off, jam, burst in on, put away, punctuate +2 more
- destroy the peace or tranquility of“Don't interrupt me when I'm reading”Synonyms: disturbMore general act, moveMore specific photobomb
- interfere in someone else's activity“Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone”Synonyms: disruptMore general chime in, cut inMore specific cut short, cut in
- terminate or end“She interrupted her pregnancy”“break a lucky streak”“break the cycle of poverty”Synonyms: breakMore general end, terminateMore specific cut short, hold on, freeze
Noun (1)interrupts
- a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried outType of signal
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Translations
Verb to break in on, stop briefly
- Spanish
- interrumpir
- French
- interrompre
- German
- unterbrechen
- Italian
- interrompere
- Portuguese
- interromper
- Turkish
- kesmek
- Russian
- прерыва́ть preryvátʹ
- Arabic
- قَاطَعَ qāṭaʕa
- Chinese
- 打断 dǎduàn
- Japanese
- 遮る saegiru
15 more languages
- Dutch
- onderbreken
- Polish
- przerwać
- Swedish
- avbryta
- Greek
- διακόπτω diakópto
- Vietnamese
- ngắt lời
- Hungarian
- megszakít
- Portuguese (PT)
- interromper
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 打斷 dǎduàn
- Catalan
- interrompre
- Czech
- přerušit
- Danish
- afbryde
- Esperanto
- interrompi
- Finnish
- keskeyttää
- Norwegian
- avbryte
- Romanian
- întrerupe
Noun interrupt signal (computing)
- French
- interruption
- Russian
- прерыва́ние preryvánije
- Chinese
- 中断 zhōngduàn
- Vietnamese
- ngắt
- Czech
- přerušení
- Finnish
- keskeytys
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. interruptus, p. p. of interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break. See Rupture.
1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking.
Do not interrupt me in my course.— William Shakespeare
2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Origin: L. interruptus, p. p.
Broken; interrupted. obsolete John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<programming> 1. An asynchronous event that suspends normal processing and temporarily diverts the flow of control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
Interrupts may be caused by both hardware (I/O, timer, machine check) and software (supervisor, system call or trap instruction).
In general the computer responds to an interrupt by storing the information about the current state of the running program; storing information to identify the source of the interrupt; and invoking a first-level interrupt handler. This is usually a kernel level privileged process that can discover the precise cause of the interrupt (e.g. if several devices share one interrupt) and what must be done to keep operating system tables (such as the process table) updated. This first-level handler may then call another handler, e.g. one associated with the particular device which generated the interrupt.
2.Under MS-DOS, nearly synonymous with "system call" because the OS and BIOS routines are both called using the INT instruction (see interrupt list) and because programmers so often have to bypass the operating system (going directly to a BIOS interrupt) to get reasonable performance. [Jargon File]
(1995-02-07)
The Jargon File
1.[techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an “interrupt handler” routine. See also trap.
2.interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Often explicitly spoken. “Interrupt — have you seen Joe recently?” See priority interrupt.