Noun

(en noun)

An obstacle, delay, or disadvantage.

After some initial setbacks , the expedition went safely on its way.

(US) The required distance between a structure and a road.

(architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.

Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.

(possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.

A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption , for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}

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, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing"

A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.