interrupt

About 5.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

verb To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
verb To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
verb To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
noun An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.