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Interrupt vs Intermittent - What's the difference?

interrupt | intermittent |

As nouns the difference between interrupt and intermittent

is that interrupt is (computing) an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition while intermittent is (medicine|dated) an intermittent fever or disease.

As a verb interrupt

is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.

As an adjective intermittent is

stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant.

interrupt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Do not interrupt me in my course.
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  • To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
  • The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
  • (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
  • Antonyms

    * continue * resume

    Noun

    (wikipedia interrupt) (en noun)
  • (computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
  • The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

    Derived terms

    * hardware interrupt * interrupt handler * non-maskable interrupt, NMI * software interrupt

    intermittent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant
  • The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
    Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
  • (specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
  • The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.

    Derived terms

    * intermittently

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease.
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