Definition of interruption

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Interruption (n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition..

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On :: On (prep.) In continuance; without interruption or ceasing; as, sleep on, take your ease; say on; sing on..
Inrecision :: Inrecision (n.) A cutting off, through, or asunder; interruption..
Stasis :: Stasimon (n.) In the Greek tragedy, a song of the chorus, continued without the interruption of dialogue or anapaestics..
Continuous :: Continuous (a.) Without break, cessation, or interruption; without intervening space or time; uninterrupted; unbroken; continual; unceasing; constant; continued; protracted; extended; as, a continuous line of railroad; a continuous current of electricity..
Jump :: Jump (n.) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
Shade :: Shade (n.) Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
Suspensor :: Suspensive (a.) Tending to suspend, or to keep in suspense; causing interruption or delay; uncertain; doubtful..
Successive :: Successive (a.) Following in order or in uninterrupted course; coming after without interruption or interval; following one after another in a line or series; consecutive; as, the successive revolution of years; the successive kings of Egypt; successive strokes of a hammer..
Rupture :: Rupture (n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture..
Pause :: Pause (n.) A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Stop :: Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction..
Incessant :: Incessant (a.) Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc..
Haw :: Haw (v. i.) To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation..
Stammerer :: Stammer (n.) Defective utterance, or involuntary interruption of utterance; a stutter..
Throttle :: Throttle (v. t.) To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated..
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States..
Discontinuance :: Discontinuance (n.) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered..
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption in continuity in writing or printing, as where there is an omission, an unfilled line, etc..
Interpose :: Interpose (v. i.) To utter a sentiment by way of interruption.
Break :: Break (v. t.) An interruption; a pause; as, a break in friendship; a break in the conversation..
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