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interruption

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishinterrupcioun, fromOld Frenchinterrupcion, fromLatininterruptio.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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interruption (countable anduncountable,pluralinterruptions)

  1. The act ofinterrupting, or the state of beinginterrupted.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe 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 frominterruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
    • 2013 June 21,Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, inThe Guardian Weekly, volume189, number 2, page27:
      The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction andinterruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"[]and so on.
  2. (linguistics) theact ofbreaking into someone else’sspeech.
  3. Atimeinterval during which there is acessation of something.

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Translations

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the act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted
a time interval during which there is a cessation of something
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French

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Frenchinterrupcion, borrowed fromLatininterruptiō.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/ ~/ɛ̃.te.ʁyp.sjɔ̃/
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Noun

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interruption f (pluralinterruptions)

  1. interruption

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