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Meaning of interruption

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  interruption
      n 1: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was
           presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in
           his account" [syn: {break}, {interruption}, {disruption},
           {gap}]
      2: some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity;
         "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a
         break in the action when a player was hurt" [syn:
         {interruption}, {break}]
      3: a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation
         of something [syn: {pause}, {intermission}, {break},
         {interruption}, {suspension}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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