interruptとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/ (verb)
• 韻: -ʌpt (verb)
• IPA^(key): /ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/ (noun)
• ハイフネーション: in‧ter‧rupt

動詞

interrupt (三人称単数 現在形 interrupts, 現在分詞 interrupting, 過去形および過去分詞形 interrupted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process または action, または the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Do not interrupt me in my course.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

   A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.

2. (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

   The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

3. (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.

   The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.

反意語

• continue
• resume

関連する語

• interruptee
• interrupter
• interruption
• abrupt
• corrupt
• disrupt

名詞

interrupt (複数形 interrupts)

1. (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

   The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

派生語

Further reading

• interrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• interrupt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• interrupt at OneLook Dictionary Search