Interrupt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Interrupt	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Interrupt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
interrupt n a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out v make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" Synonym(s): interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading" Synonym(s): interrupt, disturb interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone" Synonym(s): interrupt, disrupt terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" Synonym(s): interrupt, break
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Interrupt \In`terrupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Interrupted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Interrupting}.] [L. interruptus, p. p. of interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break. See {Rupture}.] 1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt* the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. --Shak. 2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Interrupt \In`ter*rupt"\, p. a. [L. interruptus, p. p.] Broken; interrupted. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
interrupt 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine. See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker. Often explicitly spoken. "Interrupt -- have you seen Joe recently?" See {priority interrupt}. 3. Under MS-DOS, nearly synonymous with `system call', because the OS and BIOS routines are both called using the INT instruction (see {{interrupt list}}) and because programmers so often have to bypass the OS (going directly to a BIOS interrupt) to get reasonable performance.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
interrupt 1. An {asynchronous} event that suspends normal processing and temporarily diverts the {flow of control} through an "{interrupt handler}" routine. Interrupts may be caused by both {hardware} (I/O, timer, machine check) and {software} (supervisor, {system call} or {trap} instruction). In general the computer responds to an interrupt by storing the information about the current state of the running program; storing information to identify the source of the interrupt; and invoking a first-level {interrupt handler}. This is usually a {kernel} level privileged process that can discover the precise cause of the interrupt (e.g. if several devices share one interrupt) and what must be done to keep operating system tables (such as the process table) updated. This first-level handler may then call another handler, e.g. one associated with the particular device which generated the interrupt. 2. Under {MS-DOS}, nearly synonymous with "{system call}" because the {OS} and {BIOS} routines are both called using the INT instruction (see {interrupt list}) and because programmers so often have to bypass the operating system (going directly to a BIOS interrupt) to get reasonable performance. [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-07)