English-Portuguese translations for interrupt

• interromper
  Uma das minhas funções é certamente interromper. It certainly is my job to interrupt.
• cancelar
• suspender
  Estes exemplos mostram que a Comissão pode, e fá-lo, suspender os pagamentos. These examples show that the Commission can and does interrupt payments.
  Tenho de suspender agora a sessão para passarmos ao período de perguntas. Restam quatro oradores. I am now obliged to interrupt the debate for Question Time, and there are still four speakers left.
  Cumpre impor­lhes o dever de suspender as operações, de molde a garantir tanto a segurança do navio, como da respectiva tripulação. It must be obliged to interrupt the procedure in order to guarantee the safety of the ship and crew.

Definition of interrupt

• To disturb or halt by interfering suddenly
• To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of
• To assert to that an exceptional condition must be handled
• An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition

Examples

• A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting
• The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
• The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor
• The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

Related words

• interruptee