interrupted adjective. [ɪntǝ'rʌptɪd] M16.
[from INTERRUPT verb + -ED¹.]
1. That has been interrupted. M16.

2. Botany. Of an inflorescence etc.: divided by intervals of bare axis; discontinuous. Of a pinnate leaf: having smaller leaflets interposed between the main leaflets. M19.
Special collocations: interrupted cadence Music: where the penultimate dominant chord is followed not by the expected chord of the tonic but by another, usu. that of the submediant. interrupted screw: with part of its thread cut away.

■ interruptedly adverb M17.

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