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IRQ

IRQ is the initialism of interrupt request.

Meaning of interrupt request

Noun

interrupt request (plural interrupt requests)

  1. The act of interrupting any of several hardware processes in a computer.
    Synonyms:
    IRQ

Forms of IRQ

pluralIRQs

Words formed from IRQ

Questions about IRQ

What is IRQ the initialism of?
IRQ is the initialism of interrupt request.

Words near IRQ in the dictionary

  1. Iroslav
  2. IRP
  3. IRPCS
  4. Irpin
  5. irps
  6. IRQ
  7. IRQL
  8. IRQLs
  9. IRQs
  10. IRR
  11. irradiance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: IRQ (page history and authors); interrupt request (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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