verb
- to stop or break into someone's speech or activity
- to cause something to stop temporarily
noun
- a signal that temporarily stops a computer process
Usage: computing
Examples
- Please don't interrupt me while I'm speaking.
- The phone call interrupted our dinner.
- Heavy rain interrupted the baseball game.
- She interrupted her studies to travel abroad.
- The teacher asked students not to interrupt during the lecture.
- A power outage interrupted the computer's operation.
- The system generated an interrupt when the printer ran out of paper.