interrupting

verb

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

  "A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting."

• To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

  "The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill."

• To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.

  "The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor."