interruption

英 [ɪntə'rʌpʃn] 美[,ɪntə'rʌpʃən]

• n. 中断；干扰；中断之事

1. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity;

"it was presented without commercial breaks"

2. some abrupt occurrence that interrupts;

"the telephone is an annoying interruption"

"there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"

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