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say it: dis-RUHP-shuhn
disruption is a noun meaning "an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity". It carries 4 recorded senses.
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
“it was presented without commercial breaks”
“there was a gap in his account”
a disorderly outburst or tumult
“they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused”
an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
the act of causing disorder
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for disruption come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.