interruption : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: interruption	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for interruption
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
interruption n an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account" Synonym(s): break, interruption, disruption, gap some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt" Synonym(s): interruption, break a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something Synonym(s): pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Interruption \In`terrup"tion\, n. [L. interruptio: cf. F. interruption.] 1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. --Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption* of time cause you to lose the idea of one part. --Dryden. 3. Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption. 4. Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.