Disconnected vs Interrupted - What's the difference?
disconnected | interrupted |
(disconnect)
That is no longer connected.
Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
(mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
(interrupt)
To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
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, title= To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
(computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
(computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
As verbs the difference between disconnected and interrupted
is that disconnected is (disconnect) while interrupted is (interrupt).As an adjective disconnected
is that is no longer connected.disconnected
English
Verb
(head)- The phone company disconnected my DSL.
Adjective
(en adjective)- There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
- I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.
Antonyms
* connectedDerived terms
* disconnectedly * disconnectednessinterrupted
English
Verb
(head)interrupt
English
Verb
(en verb)- Do not interrupt me in my course.
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- The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Antonyms
* continue * resumeNoun
(wikipedia interrupt) (en noun)- The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.