Truncate vs Interrupt - What's the difference?
truncate | interrupt |
To shorten something as if by cutting off part of it.
(mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (or leading) digits; to chop.
(geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
truncated
(botany, anatomy) Having an abrupt termination.
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 truncate and interrupt
is that truncate is to shorten something as if by cutting off part of it while interrupt is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.As an adjective truncate
is truncated.As a noun interrupt is
(computing) an event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.truncate
English
(wikipedia truncate)Verb
(en-verb)Synonyms
* (mathematics) round downAdjective
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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.