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