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.