interrupts

Meaning of interrupts

noun
  1. An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
    The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.
verb
  1. To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
    A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
  2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
    The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
  3. To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
    The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.

Information about interrupts

  • The singular form of interrupts is: interrupt.
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Hyphenation of interrupts

in-ter-rupts

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • interrupts is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

interrupts antonyms

Meaning :

continue, resume

Words that rhyme with interrupts

abrupts, bankrupts, corrupts, disrupts, erupts, irrupts

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