interruption
Etymology

From Middle English interrupcioun, from Old French interrupcion, from Latin interruptio.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/
Noun

interruption

  1. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
    • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗:
      One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
  2. (linguistics) the act of breaking into someone else’s speech.
  3. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.
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