Usually means: Signals that pause normal processing.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. interrupts: Merriam-Webster
  2. interrupts: Collins English Dictionary
  3. interrupts: Vocabulary.com
  4. Interrupts, interrupts: Wordnik
  5. interrupts: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. interrupts: Wiktionary
  7. interrupts: Dictionary.com
  8. interrupts: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Interrupts: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. interrupts: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. interrupts: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. interrupts: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. interrupts: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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(Note: See interrupt as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (interrupt)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
verb:  (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
noun:  (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
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