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say it: in-tur-UHP-shuhn
interruption is a noun meaning "an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity". It carries 3 recorded senses.
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
“it was presented without commercial breaks”
“there was a gap in his account”
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”
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
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 interruption 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.