different between setback vs interruption

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?tbæk/

Etymology

From the verb phrase set back.

Noun

setback (plural setbacks)

1. An obstacle, delay, disadvantage, blow (an adverse event which retards or prevents progress towards a desired outcome)

   After some initial setbacks, the expedition went safely on its way.

2. (US) The required distance between a structure and a road.
3. (architecture) A step-like recession in a wall.

   Setbacks were initially used for structural reasons, but now are often mandated by land use codes.

4. An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
   • 1980, Popular Science (volume 217, number 4)

     Fuel savings from thermostat setbacks have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it.

5. (possibly archaic) A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.
6. (archaic) A backset; a check; a repulse; a relapse.

Translations

Anagrams

• backest, backets, backset

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French interrupcion, from Latin interruptio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt????p??n/
• Rhymes: -?p??n

Noun

interruption (countable and uncountable, plural interruptions)

1. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
2. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

Synonyms

• (time interval): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

Translations

See also

• dead air

French

Etymology

From Old French interrupcion, borrowed from Latin interruptio, interruptionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t?.?yp.sj??/

Noun

interruption f (plural interruptions)

1. interruption

Related terms

• interrompre