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The correct spelling is interrupts.
How to pronounce interrupts
noun
Say it like: Int-err-upt-s
The correct spelling is interrupts. An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition. For example: "The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run."
Usage Examples
“The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.”
“A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.”
“The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
verb
- 1.To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
- 2.To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- 3.To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
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