Polling vs. Interrupt

Pollingnoun

The action of taking a poll.

Pollingnoun

(computing) A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.

Pollingnoun

the process of voting in an election.

Pollingnoun

The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges.

Pollingnoun

Plunder, or extortion.

Pollingnoun

The act of voting, or of registering a vote.

Interruptverb

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

Interruptverb

(transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

Interruptverb

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

Interruptnoun

An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

Interruptverb

To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking.

Interruptverb

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

Interrupt

Broken; interrupted.

Interruptverb

make a break in;

Interruptverb

destroy the peace or tranquility of;

Interruptverb

interfere in someone else's activity;

Interruptverb

terminate;

Interrupt

In digital computers, an interrupt is a response by the processor to an event that needs attention from the software. An interrupt condition alerts the processor and serves as a request for the processor to interrupt the currently executing code when permitted, so that the event can be processed in a timely manner.