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An Interrupt is a feature of the processor hardware; eg, on an 8051, and interrupt can occur when the UART receives a character.

A Function is a construct of the 'C' programming language - it represents a piece of executable code that can be "called" by other parts of the program.

(other languages have similar constructs)

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