The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. The state of being
interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt
intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current,
progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met
with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the
speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption. an act of
delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented
without commercial breaks" some abrupt occurrence that
interrupts; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there
was a break in the action when a player was hurt" a formal
break, usually of one month or longer, in your course of study a
formal break, usually of several months, in your course of study
Unterbrechung A form of the fundamental structure in which there
is a break after followed by a return to the primary tone
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