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Parenthesis vs Interrupt - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between parenthesis and interrupt

is that parenthesis is a clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes while interrupt is an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

As a verb interrupt is

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

parenthesis

English

Noun

(parentheses)
  • A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
  • Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
  • (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
  • * 2009 , :
  • Ryan Bingham'': I thought I was a part of your life. ''Alex Goran'': I thought we signed up for the same thing... I thought our relationship was perfectly clear. You are an escape. You're a break from our normal lives. You're a parenthesis . ''Ryan Bingham : I'm a parenthesis?
  • (mathematics, logic) Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.
  • Synonyms

    * parenthetical expression * (brackets) round bracket * paren (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket") * See also

    Derived terms

    * parenthetic * parenthetic, parenthetical * parenthesise, parenthesize

    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.
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
  • 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