interrupt

  1. Verb.  to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
  2. Verb.  (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
  3. Noun.  (computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

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