Interruption

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of interrupting or breaking in upon anything.
  • noun. The state of being interrupted; the state of being impeded, checked, or stopped.
  • noun. Obstruction or hindrance caused by a breaking in upon any course, current, progress, or motion; stoppage: as, interruptions in the execution of a work.
  • noun. Cessation; intermission; interval.
  • noun. A prorogation of Parliament: used in the seventeenth century.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
  • noun. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
  • noun. Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance
  • noun. Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted
  • noun. a time interval during which there is a cessation of something
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
  • noun. some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
  • noun. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
  • Word Usage
    "Wal, the Duke's real amiable; but I reckon you'd find what you call the interruption of an argument."
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