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Interrupt vs. Abort — What's the Difference?

Interrupt vs. Abort — What's the Difference?

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Interrupt

In digital computers, an interrupt is a response by the processor to an event that needs attention from the software. An interrupt condition alerts the processor and serves as a request for the processor to interrupt the currently executing code when permitted, so that the event can be processed in a timely manner.

Abort

To terminate (a pregnancy) by abortion.

Interrupt

To break the continuity or uniformity of
Rain interrupted our baseball game.

Abort

To cause the expulsion of (an embryo or fetus) by abortion.

Interrupt

To stop (someone engaged in an activity) by saying or doing something
The baby interrupted me while I was on the phone.
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Abort

To undergo the abortion of (an embryo or fetus).

Interrupt

To cause an activity to stop by saying or doing something.

Abort

To miscarry (an embryo or fetus).

Interrupt

A signal to a computer that stops the execution of a running program so that another action can be performed.

Abort

To terminate (an undertaking or procedure) before implementation or completion
Abort the launch of a rocket.
Abort a computer program.

Interrupt

A circuit that conveys a signal stopping the execution of a running program.

Abort

To stop the progress of (a disease, for example).

Interrupt

(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.

Abort

To miscarry.

Interrupt

(transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

Abort

To cease growth before full development or maturation.

Interrupt

To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.

Abort

To terminate an undertaking or procedure before implementation or completion.

Interrupt

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.

Abort

The act of aborting an undertaking or procedure.

Interrupt

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking.
Do not interrupt me in my course.

Abort

An early termination of a mission, action, or procedure in relation to missiles or spacecraft; the craft making such a mission.
We've had aborts on three of our last seven launches.

Interrupt

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

Abort

(computing) The function used to abort a process.

Interrupt

Broken; interrupted.

Abort

(computing) An event in which a process is aborted.
We've had three aborts over the last two days.

Interrupt

Make a break in;
We interrupt the program for the following messages

Abort

The product of a miscarriage; an aborted offspring; an abortion.

Interrupt

Destroy the peace or tranquility of;
Don't interrupt me when I'm reading

Abort

(obsolete) A miscarriage; an untimely birth; an abortion.

Interrupt

Interfere in someone else's activity;
Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone

Abort

To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely.

Interrupt

Terminate;
She interrupted her pregnancy
Break a lucky streak
Break the cycle of poverty

Abort

To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term.

Abort

(transitive) To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back.

Abort

(intransitive) To stop or fail at something in the preliminary stages.

Abort

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to cease organic growth before maturation; to become sterile.

Abort

To cause an organism to develop minimally; to cause rudimentary development to happen; to prevent maturation.

Abort

To abandon a mission at any point after the beginning of the mission and prior to its completion.

Abort

To terminate a mission involving a missile or rocket; to destroy a missile or rocket prematurely.

Abort

To terminate a process prior to completion.

Abort

To miscarry; to bring forth young prematurely.

Abort

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Abort

To stop, cease, or fail prior to normal completion.

Abort

To cause (an action or process) to stop at an early stage, or before normal completion; as, to abort a rocket flight.

Abort

An untimely birth.

Abort

An aborted offspring.

Abort

Terminate before completion;
Abort the mission
Abort the process running on my computer

Abort

Terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

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