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

• IPA: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/

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.

• (time interval) hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

• French: interruption
• German: Unterbrechung
• Italian: interruzione
• Portuguese: interrupção
• Russian: прерыва́ние
• Spanish: interrupción

• French: interruption
• German: Unterbrechung
• Italian: interruzione
• Portuguese: interrupção
• Russian: переры́в
• Spanish: paréntesis, interrupción