interruptedadj.
/ˌɪntəˈrʌptᵻd/, U.S. /ˌɪn(t)əˈrəptəd/ a. Broken in upon; broken off; having its course hindered or continuity broken; made discontinuous: see the verb.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [adjective] > interrupted
interrupt1412
interrupted1552
intermitted1557
interruptive1643
broken1712
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Interrupted, interpellatus.
1592 S. Daniel Delia ii Sigh out a Storie of her cruell deedes, With interrupted accents of despaire.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iii. i. 248 Whose Rage doth rend Like interrupted Waters, and o're-beare What they are vs'd to beare. View more context for this quotation
1748 Dodsley Preceptor (1763) I. p. xliv Express..Sorrow by a low, flexible interrupted Voice.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 605 The patient recovered under daily application of the interrupted current.
b. Botany (and Zoology) Having smaller, or otherwise differing, members (e.g. leaflets in a compound leaf, or spikelets in an inflorescence) in the intervals between the others in a series; also, having a gap or void interval, discontinuous (as a linear marking): see interruptedly adv. b.
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the world > plants > part of plant > (defined by) distribution, arrangement, or position > [adjective] > having different parts in the intervals
interrupted1855
the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > physical arrangement or condition > [adjective] > symmetrical or paired > not symmetrical or interrupted
interrupted1855
1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Interruptus, Bot., broken in respect to uniformity: interrupted.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. VI. 269 Interrupted Club-moss.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Interrupted, when any symmetrical arrangement is destroyed by local causes: a leaf is interruptedly pinnated when some of the pinnæ are much smaller than the others, or wholly wanting.
c. interrupted cadence n. Music an alteration of the perfect cadence, in which the full close is deferred or evaded by the use of some other chord (usually that of the sixth of the key) instead of that of the tonic.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > ending > cadence > types of
passing close1597
perfect cadence1636
inganno1753
interrupted cadence1801
plagal cadence1836
false cadence1888
female close1928
female cadence1930
1801 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Interrupted, a term applied by theorists to those closes or cadences in which the bass, instead of falling or rising from the fifth to the key-note, passes to some other, and interrupts the full close, or final cadence.
1877 J. Stainer Harmony xii The interrupted cadence consists of a temporary delay of the perfect cadence.
1880 C. H. H. Parry in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 291 The form of Interrupted cadence generally quoted as typical is that in which the chord of the dominant, instead of proceeding to the harmony of the tonic as the mind is led to expect, is followed by the chord of the 6th of the key, or sub-mediant.
d. Cartography. Designating a form of map projection in which some adjacent areas of the sphere are separated from one another in order to provide greater clarity or accuracy in certain areas of the map. Chiefly in interrupted projection.
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1927 J. A. Steers Introd. Study Map Projections vi. 152 (heading) ‘Interrupted’ projections.
1969 G. C. Dickinson Maps & Air Photographs i. 17 If a map can be broken in some areas that do not matter—the oceans if map is needed mainly for continental areas, or vice versa—and the meridians gathered together at several ‘central’ meridians the good qualities of the ‘central’ areas are more widely spread. Fig. 4F shows such an interrupted sinusoidal projection.
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