The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition
some abrupt occurrence that interrupts; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"
An outage caused by the failure of one or more communications links with entities outside of the local facility
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