The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.

The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.

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.

Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

a cessation of a supply of power to customers.

See "Outage".

An outage caused by the failure of one or more communications links with entities outside of the local facility.

the complete loss of voltage (0.1 pu for IEEE standards and 0.01 pu for CENELEC standards) on one or more phase conductors for a time period between 0.5 cycles and 3 s, 3 s and 1 minute, and greater than 1 minute, respectively. The main interruption causes are circuit breaker openings, circuit breaker or switch defective operations, cut down conductors, and lack of power generation. The word blackout is also used for sustained interruptions.

Inoperative service (or a portion thereof).

A stopping or hindering of the normal process or flow (of an activity.) [D02895] RMW

To stop the communication between two or more wireless devices.

A situation in which an LDC, in order to meet firm sales and/or transport obligations to high priority customers, restricts deliveries of interruptible gas.

a student is temporarily leaving the programme, for financial, personal or other reasons. (NB students may only interrupt with the School's permission). See Interruption of registration (undergraduate); Interruption (graduate)

(interruption) - the non-availability of information, assets, systems, or services; interruption can be accidental or deliberate

Signal sent to a processor to invite it to interrupt the operation in progress, to allow to proceed to another operation.

A function invoked when interrupt-process interrupts a running process.

legal action to extend the length of time of a period of prescription .