interrupt
- Verb. to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
- Verb. (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- Noun. (computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.
This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.