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Interrupt request
An interrupt request (IRQ) is a signal sent to a computer's processor, usually by a hardware device, to momentarily interrupt its operations so the device can be serviced.
Interrupted aortic arch
Interrupted aortic arch (IAA, ICD-10 Q25.21) is a congenital discontinuity of the aortic arch, types A–C by site, ductal-dependent at birth, linked to 22q11.2 deletion, treated with prostaglandin E1 and single-stage anastomosis.
Interrupted time series analysis
Interrupted time series (ITS) analysis is a quasi-experimental design that estimates an intervention's effect by fitting regression models to data from many time points before and after.
Interruption (electric power)
An interruption in electric power is a complete loss of supply voltage or load current, defined by IEEE Standard 1159 and classified by duration into four categories.
Interscalene nerve block
The interscalene nerve block is a regional anesthesia technique that injects local anesthetic between the scalene muscles of the neck to numb the shoulder and upper arm for surgery.
Interscope Records
Interscope Records, founded 1990 by Jimmy Iovine and Ted Field, is a Universal Music Group label under Interscope Geffen A&M, known for hip-hop and rock artists like Dr. Dre, Eminem, and Billie Eilish.
Intersectin-1, AP2 binding region
INTAP (Pfam PF16617) is the natively unstructured SH3A-B linker region of intersectin 1 that binds AP2 alpha- and beta2-appendage side sites, regulating clathrin-mediated synaptic vesicle recycling; also found in intersectin 2 and NECAP1.
Intersecting Storage Rings
The Intersecting Storage Rings (ISR) was a CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, the world's first hadron collider, whose two interlaced proton rings produced the first proton-proton collisions in January 1971.
Intersection (road)
An intersection, also called an at-grade junction, is a point where two or more roads meet or cross at the same grade, where traffic must yield, stop, or signal.
Intersection (set theory)
In set theory, the intersection of sets A and B, written A ∩ B, is the set of elements they share, the set-level counterpart of logical conjunction.
Intersection graph
An intersection graph is a graph whose vertices represent members of a family of sets, with edges between sets that intersect; every graph arises this way.
Intersection theory
Intersection theory is the branch of algebraic geometry that defines intersection multiplicities and numbers, forming an intersection product on the Chow ring, with roots in Bézout's theorem.
Intersection type
An intersection type is a type whose values belong to all of its components at once, introduced by Coppo and Dezani in 1978 and written A & B in TypeScript and Scala 3.
Intersectionality
Intersectionality, coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, is an analytical framework from Black feminism examining how race, gender, class, and other social positions reciprocally construct inequality, now used across law, health research, and AI fairness.
Intersex
Intersex describes people born with sex characteristics, including chromosomes, gonads, hormones and genitals, that do not fit typical binary definitions of male or female bodies; also called variations in sex characteristics or DSD, with growing legal protections against non-consensual surgery.
Intersex medical interventions
Intersex medical interventions, also called intersex surgery, are surgical or hormonal procedures on people born with sex characteristics that differ from typical male or female bodies.
Intersil
Intersil was an American semiconductor company founded in 1967 by Jean Hoerni, a Fairchild co-founder who invented the planar process; Renesas acquired it in 2017 for about $3.2 billion.
Interslavic (Меджусловјанскы)
Interslavic (Меджусловјанскы језык, Medžuslovjansky) is a zonal constructed language for communication among Slavs, begun as Slovianski in 2006, renamed Interslavic in 2010, and unified in 2017; designed to be understood by Slavic speakers without prior study.
Intersnack
Intersnack is a German snack manufacturer founded in 1968. It produces snacks under more than 30 brands, generating sales of around €4.5 billion in 2024.
Intersolar Europe
Intersolar Europe is one of the world's largest solar industry exhibitions, held annually at Messe München in Munich and covering photovoltaics, solar thermal, and storage.
Interspecies friendship
Interspecies friendship: durable affiliative bonds between animals of different species, documented in primates (427 cases), orphans like Owen the hippo and Mzee the tortoise, and human-animal pairs, rooted in oxytocin-mediated bonding mechanisms.
Interspecies Reviewers (異種族レビュアーズ)
Interspecies Reviewers (異種族レビュアーズ, Ishuzoku Reviewers) is a 2016 fantasy sex-comedy manga by Amahara and masha about adventurers reviewing brothels of different species; its 2020 Passione anime was pulled by Funimation and Japanese TV stations for explicitness.
Interspecific stone fruit hybrids
Interspecific stone fruit hybrids are crosses between Prunus species, chiefly plum, apricot, peach, and nectarine, including plumcots, peacotums, and the trademarked Zaiger Pluot and Aprium lines bred in California.
Interspeech
Interspeech is the annual international conference of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), the world's largest conference on spoken language processing, formed in 2004 by merging EUROSPEECH and ICSLP.
Intersphincteric resection
Intersphincteric resection (ISR) is an operation for very low rectal cancer that removes the rectum and part of the internal anal sphincter, avoiding a permanent colostomy.
Interspousal immunity
Interspousal immunity is a common-law doctrine that bars one spouse from bringing a tort suit against the other for personal injuries, resting on the old fiction that husband and wife are one legal person.
Interstate 10
Interstate 10 is a 2,460-mile coast-to-coast Interstate Highway across the southern United States, from Santa Monica, California, to Jacksonville, Florida, that passes through eight states and was completed in 1990.
Interstate 10 in Arizona
Interstate 10 in Arizona is the 391-mile Arizona segment of I-10, linking Phoenix and Tucson and running from the California line near Ehrenberg to the New Mexico line.
Interstate 10 in Texas
Interstate 10 in Texas is the 877-mile Texas segment of I-10, running from El Paso through San Antonio and Houston to Orange, the longest interstate segment in any state.
Interstate 105 (California)
Interstate 105, known locally as the Century Freeway, is a 17.3-mile east–west freeway in Los Angeles County connecting LAX to Norwalk, opened in 1993 at a cost of $2.25 billion.