interruptibleadj.
Capable of being interrupted.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [adjective] > interrupted > able to be
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1638 T. Jackson Treat. Consecration Sonne of God 170 The vertue or efficacy of it is not circumscriptible by time, nor interruptible by any moment or instant of time.
1939 H. Nicolson Diary 4 Feb. (1966) 390 Compared with a film, it [sc. television] is a bleary..interruptible thing.
1961 R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts xvii. 389 Awhile, of course, is readily interruptible: I waited a long while is common alongside I waited awhile.
1961 Economist 2 Dec. 910 A supply of gas that is interruptible.
1966 Economist 14 May 734/1 So customers prepared to accept ‘interruptable’ electricity and have their power cut at peak hours can buy electricity very cheap indeed—possibly too cheap.
1971 Daily Tel. 4 Mar. 14/3 Supplies will be on an interruptible basis, so that a cold-weather surge in domestic demand for gas might be met by cutting off supplies to industrial users such as Tunnel.
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