interruption

Nouns

  • (n) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
    • it was presented without commercial breaks
    • there was a gap in his account
    disruption, gap, break,
  • (n) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
    • the telephone is an annoying interruption
    • there was a break in the action when a player was hurt
    break,
  • (n) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something pause, intermission, suspension, break,

Synonyms

disruption gap break pause intermission suspension

Words of close approximity