interrupted

Broken; intermitted; fitful; acting irregularly or unequally.

In botany: Having the principal leaflets divided by intervals of smaller ones: applied to compound leaves.

Having the larger spikes divided by a series of smaller ones: applied to flowers: opposed to continuous.

In zoology, suddenly stopped; having a gap or hiatus: as, an interrupted stria.

Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

Irregular; — said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

Simple past tense and past participle of interrupt.

intermittently stopping and starting

discontinued temporarily