Associations to the word «Interrupt»
Noun
- Interruption
- Conversation
- Pardon
- Breaker
- Exclamation
- Handler
- Monologue
- Cpu
- Timer
- Flow
- Narrative
- Discourse
- Impatience
- Processor
- Proceeding
- Antic
- Hardware
- Kernel
- Controller
- Wedding
- Quiet
- Pic
- Ceremony
- Reverie
- Routine
- Byte
- Int
- Priority
- Microprocessor
- Polling
- Interrupt
- Queue
- Handling
- Intel
- Excuse
- Abbe
- Dowager
- Intercom
- Vector
- Dos
- Buffer
- Stack
- Instruction
- Thread
- Bio
- Blank
- Madam
- Overflow
- Ethernet
- Throughput
- Ibm
- Os
- Musing
- Monsieur
- Intercept
- Pointer
- Restart
- Rom
- Input
- Chip
Verb
Wiktionary
INTERRUPT, verb. To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
INTERRUPT, verb. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
INTERRUPT, verb. (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
INTERRUPT, noun. (computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
INTERRUPT REQUEST, noun. (computing) The act of interrupting any of several hardware processes in a computer.
INTERRUPT REQUESTS, noun. Plural of interrupt request
Dictionary definition
INTERRUPT, noun. A signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out.
INTERRUPT, verb. Make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages".
INTERRUPT, verb. Destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading".
INTERRUPT, verb. Interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone".
INTERRUPT, verb. Terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty".
Wise words
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.