interruption

interruption has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 12.

Definitions

• n.. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
• n.. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
• n.. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
• n.. 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"
• n.. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something