interrupt

A processorA computer chip that does computing work for a computer. It may do general work (like in your home computer) or it may do specialized work (like some of the processors in your smartphone). feature that let’s some event interrupt the program that a processor is running for a short time before returning the processor to the original program. In and IoTThe Internet of Things. A broad term covering many different applications where "things"  are interconnected through the internet. device, it may wake the processor rather than interrupting some other task.