<B>interrupt, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to break in upon (talk, work, rest, or a person speaking); hinder; stop. <BR> <I>Ex. A fire drill interrupted the lesson. I don't want to be interrupted in my business (Joseph Conrad).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a break in; stand in the way of; obstruct. <BR> <I>Ex. A building interrupts the view from our window.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to cause a break; break in. <BR> <I>Ex. It is not polite to interrupt when someone is talking.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a temporary stop; interruption. <BR> <I>Ex. [The computer] can deal with foreground real-time interrupts in 6 microseconds without losing control of any of its other jobs, yet every background user will get his answers faster than he needs them (Scientific American).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any breach, separation, or gap. <BR> <I>Ex. Wide though the interrupt be that divides us ... we nod them as neighbors (W. H. Auden).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="interrupted">
<B>interrupted, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>acting irregularly or unequally; broken; discontinuous. <BR> <I>Ex. All is silent, save the faint And interrupted murmur of the bee (William Cullen Bryant).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Botany.) having the principal leaflets or flower spikes divided by series of smaller ones. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Zoology.) suddenly stopped; having a gap. <BR> <I>Ex. an interrupted stria.</I> adv. <B>interruptedly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="interruptedscrew">
<B>interrupted screw,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a screw with part of its thread cut away, especially a screw used to form the closure of a breechloading gun, with screw threads removed from alternate sectors. </DL>
<A NAME="interrupter">
<B>interrupter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who interrupts. <DD><B> 2. </B>a device used to make and break an electric circuit periodically and (usually) automatically. </DL>
<A NAME="interruptible">
<B>interruptible, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be interrupted. <BR> <I>Ex. interruptible electric power.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="interruption">
<B>interruption, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of interrupting; breaking in. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being interrupted; break; stopping. <BR> <I>Ex. The rain continued without interruption all day.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>something that interrupts. <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=intermission.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="interruptive">
<B>interruptive, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to interrupt. </DL>
<A NAME="interruptor">
<B>interruptor, </B>noun. =interrupter.</DL>
<A NAME="interscapular">
<B>interscapular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Anatomy.) situated between the shoulder blades. </DL>
<A NAME="interscholastic">
<B>interscholastic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between schools. <BR> <I>Ex. Our team won the interscholastic softball competition.</I> </DL>
<B>inter se,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) between or among themselves. </DL>
<A NAME="intersect">
<B>intersect, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to cut or divide by passing through or crossing; cross. <BR> <I>Ex. A path intersects the field.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to cross or cut each other. <BR> <I>Ex. Streets usually intersect at right angles.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Geometry.) to pass through or across another line or surface so as to have one or more points in common. <BR> <I>Ex. The lines intersect at X and Y.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="intersection">
<B>intersection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of intersecting or crossing. <BR> <I>Ex. Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railroad and a highway.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the point or line where one thing crosses another. In the diagram, there are two intersections where the line AB crosses the parallel lines. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Mathematics.) the set in a group of two or more sets which contains those elements that belong to all the sets. (Example:) If set A = {1, 2, 3, 4} and set B = {3, 4, 5, 6}, then the intersection of the two sets is {3, 4}. </DL>
<A NAME="intersectional">
<B>intersectional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with intersection. <DD><B> 2. </B>characterized by intersection. <DD><B> 3. </B>existing or prevailing between sections. <DD><B> 4. </B>coming from different sections. <BR> <I>Ex. an intersectional mayor's conference.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="intersensory">
<B>intersensory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> involving use of all or several senses at the same time. </DL>
<A NAME="interseptal">
<B>interseptal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> situated between septa or partitions. </DL>
<A NAME="interservice">
<B>interservice, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between military services or members of different military services. <BR> <I>Ex. an interservice conference.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="intersession">
<B>intersession, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) the interval between two school sessions or semesters, especially at a college or university. </DL>
<A NAME="intersessional">
<B>intersessional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between sessions. <BR> <I>Ex. Two one-month plenaries with an intersessional working party active for most of the intervals makes this the longest ... international conference (Science Journal).</I> </DL>
<B>intersexual, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>existing between the sexes. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Biology.) having sexual characteristics that are intermediate between, or combining, those of the typical female and the typical male. </DL>
<A NAME="intersexuality">
<B>intersexuality, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being intersexual. </DL>
<B>interspace, </B>noun, verb, <B>-spaced,</B> <B>-spacing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a space between two things; interval. <BR> <I>Ex. The lucid interspace of world and world, Where never creeps a cloud (Tennyson).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put a space between. <DD><B> 2. </B>to occupy or fill the space between. </DL>
<A NAME="interspatial">
<B>interspatial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with an interspace. adv. <B>interspatially.</B> </DL>
<B>interspecific, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> occurring or arising between species. <BR> <I>Ex. an interspecific hybrid.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="interspersal">
<B>interspersal, </B>noun. =interspersion.</DL>
<A NAME="intersperse">
<B>intersperse, </B>transitive verb, <B>-spersed,</B> <B>-spersing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to vary with something put here and there; diversify with something at intervals. <BR> <I>Ex. He interspersed his narrative with many comments. The grass was interspersed with beds of flowers.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to scatter among other things. <BR> <I>Ex. Bushes were interspersed among the trees.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="interspersedly">
<B>interspersedly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in an interspersed manner; here and there among other things. </DL>
<A NAME="interspersion">
<B>interspersion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of interspersing. <DD><B> 2. </B>the state of being interspersed. </DL>
<A NAME="interstadial">
<B>interstadial, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a period within a glacial epoch when the climate becomes temporarily warmer. <DD><I>adj. </I> occurring or formed during this period. </DL>
<A NAME="interstage">
<B>interstage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a section that connects two stages of a rocket. <BR> <I>Ex. The 18-ft.-high interstage ... is jettisoned 32 seconds after second-stage ignition (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="interstate">
<B>interstate, </B>adjective, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj., adv. </I> between persons or organizations in different states; between states. <BR> <I>Ex. an interstate highway (adj.). St. Johnsbury Trucking is a common carrier operating interstate (Wall Street Journal) (adv.).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (U.S.) an interstate highway. <BR> <I>Ex. The wildcat blockades ... began early in the week on interstates in the East and quickly spread to other parts of the country (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="interstellar">
<B>interstellar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> situated or taking place between the stars; in the region of the stars. <BR> <I>Ex. interstellar space, interstellar travel.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="interstice">
<B>interstice, </B>noun, pl. <B>-stices.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small or narrow space between things or parts; narrow crack or opening; chink. <BR> <I>Ex. the interstices of the larynx.</I> (SYN) crevice. <DD><B> 2. </B>an interval of time. <BR> <I>Ex. The book records the family's wanderings as it moved from place to place, trying to find, in the interstices between upheavals, somewhere to settle (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>interstitial cell stimulating hormone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pituitary hormone which acts on the interstitial cells of the testicles to produce testosterone; luteinizing hormone. (Abbr:) ICSH (no periods). </DL>
<A NAME="interstock">
<B>interstock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) a stock grafted between the rootstock and the scion. </DL>
<A NAME="interstratification">
<B>interstratification, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the condition or fact of being interstratified; an interposed formation or deposit. </DL>
<A NAME="interstratify">
<B>interstratify, </B>verb, <B>-fied,</B> <B>-fying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> to lie as strata between other strata. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to lay between other strata; arrange in alternate strata. </DL>
<A NAME="intersubjective">
<B>intersubjective, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> between different subjective states or points of view. <BR> <I>Ex. There can be wide intersubjective agreement about the values of certain subjective probabilities (Science).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="intersubjectivity">
<B>intersubjectivity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the quality or condition of being intersubjective. </DL>
<A NAME="intersystem">
<B>intersystem, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or between different systems. <BR> <I>Ex. Intersystem analysis and integration involving launch vehicle, tracking and data acquisition, spacecraft systems and space flight (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
