different between parenthesis vs interrupt

English

Etymology

From Late Latin parenthesis (“addition of a letter to a syllable in a word”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (parénthesis), from ??????????? (parentíth?mi, “I put in beside, mix up”), from ???? (pará, “beside”) + ?? (en, “in”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “put, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to put, to do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p????n??s?s/

Noun

parenthesis (countable and uncountable, plural parentheses)

1. A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.
2. Either of a pair of brackets, especially round brackets, ( and ) (used to enclose parenthetical material in a text).
3. (rhetoric) A digression; the use of such digressions.
4. (mathematics, logic) Such brackets as used to clarify expressions by grouping those terms affected by a common operator, or to enclose the components of a vector or the elements of a matrix.

Synonyms

• (clause, phrase or word): parenthetical expression
• (brackets): round bracket; parenthesis-point (obsolete)
• paren (abbreviation, for the meaning "round bracket")
• See also Thesaurus:bracket

Derived terms

• parenthesis-point
• parenthetic, parenthetical
• parenthesise, parenthesize

Translations

Anagrams

• hen's parties, interphases, preanthesis

English

Alternative forms

• interrumpt (archaic), interroupt (rare), interrout (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt????pt/ (verb)
• (verb)
• Rhymes: -?pt (verb)
• IPA^(key): /??nt????pt/ (noun)
• Hyphenation: in?ter?rupt

Verb

interrupt (third-person singular simple present interrupts, present participle interrupting, simple past and past participle interrupted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.

2. (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

3. (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.

Antonyms

• continue
• resume

Related terms

• interruptee
• interrupter
• interruption
• abrupt
• corrupt
• disrupt

Translations

Noun

interrupt (plural interrupts)

1. (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• interrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• interrupt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• interrupt at OneLook Dictionary Search