Breaking Point

  

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Breaking Point

Definitions: Breaking Point

Breaking Point

Noun

1. Stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial.

2. The degree of tension or stress at which something breaks.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Breaking Point

DomainDefinitions

Mining

In rock crushers, a deliberate weak link that yields if excessive strain is developed. May be a scarfed toggle, weak cap bolts on a pitman, a shearpin in drive, or a clutch designed to fail at a given load. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Breaking Point

English words defined with "breaking point": ice pick, icepick. (references)
Specialty definitions using "breaking point": BLAST-FURNACE KEEPERCOILED-COIL INSPECTORpyramid cutshotholeworking cycle. (references)

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Modern Usage: Breaking Point

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Breaking Point (1966)

The Breaking Point (1961)

Breaking Point (1976)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Breaking Point

DomainTitle

Books

  • Breaking Point (Tom Clancy's Net Force, No. 4) (reference)

  • Post War Riots in America, 1919 and 1946: How the Pressures of War Exacerbated American Urban Tensions to the Breaking Point (reference)

  • The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point (reference)

  • SIP Reaches a Breaking Point [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Breaking Point

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

breaking point

40

band breaking point

2
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Modern Translations: Breaking Point

Language Translations for "breaking point"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

festigkeitsgrenze. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

張り切る (to be eager, to be enthusiastic, to be full of vigor, to be in high spirits, to stretch to breaking point). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はりきる (to be eager, to be enthusiastic, to be full of vigor, to be in high spirits, to stretch to breaking point). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakingbray ointpay

   

Russian 

  

момент разрыва, предел прочности. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

punto de ruptura (breakpoint). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bristningsgräns (bursting-point). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Breaking Point

Misspellings

"Breaking Point" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: breakingpoint. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Breaking Point

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-i-k-n-n-o-p-r-t"

-2 letters: reobtaining.

-3 letters: bepainting, brigantine, pertaining, repainting.

-4 letters: aborigine, arointing, bantering, bipinnate, inebriant, interbank, obtaining, operating, orienting, originate, parenting, prebaking, probating, pronating, rationing, rebaiting, retaining, tinkering.

-5 letters: aborning, aborting, anointer, antiking, antiporn, aproning, arginine, atropine, banknote, baritone, beraking, berating, betaking, bignonia, borating, braining, breaking, enrobing, ibogaine, ignitron, ignorant, negation, negatron, ninebark, nitrogen, obtainer, opiating, orbiting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Breaking Point


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 72 65 61 6B 69 6E 67      50 6F 69 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01010000 01101111 01101001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#107 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#80 &#111 &#105 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0072 0065 0061 006B 0069 006E 0067      0050 006F 0069 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

368471677775807325081758086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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