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Malfunction vs Disruption - What's the difference?

malfunction | disruption |

As nouns the difference between malfunction and disruption

is that malfunction is faulty functioning while disruption is an interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.

As a verb malfunction

is to function improperly.

malfunction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • faulty functioning
  • failure to function

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to function improperly
    • She told him the machine was poorly built, but they both knew that she was the one who had malfunctioned .
  • to fail to function

    • disruption

    English

    (wikipedia disruption)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
  • * The network created a disruption in the show when they broke in with a newscast.
  • A continuing act of disorder
  • * There was great disruption in the classroom when the teacher left.