Katkemist

Katkemist is an Estonian noun that refers to the act or occurrence of interruption, break, or disruption in a process, system, or sequence. It is used to describe temporary stoppages as well as longer outages, such as interruptions in power supply, communications, transport, or workflows. In everyday and formal language, the term encompasses both concrete pauses and more general disruptions.

The word is closely related to the verb katkema, meaning to break off or cut off. Related nouns include katkemine (the act of breaking or interrupting) and katkestus (an interruption or outage). Katkemist itself appears in various grammatical constructions, often in the partitive or genitive singular, for example in phrases like elektrivõrgu katkemist põhjustanud rike, meaning a fault that caused a power outage.

Usage context and nuance: katkemist emphasizes the event of interruption as a concept, rather than the continuous state of the system. It is commonly used in technical, administrative, and media language to describe disruptions in services, data streams, or processes, and it can be used in both short-lived and extended interruption scenarios.

See also: katkemine, katkestus. Translation equivalents include interruption, outage, break, and disruption.