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BREAKPOINT

Specialty Definition: BREAKPOINT

DomainDefinition

Computing

Breakpoint A point in a program that, when reached, triggers some special behavior useful to the process of debugging; generally, breakpoints are used to either pause program execution, and/or dump the values of some or all of the program variables. Breakpoints may be part of the program itself; or they may be set by the programmer as part of an interactive session with a debugging tool for scrutinizing the program's execution. (1999-06-07). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Crosswords: BREAKPOINT

Specialty definitions using "BREAKPOINT": Fusion Proteins, bcr-abl. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BREAKPOINT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Breakpoint (reference)

  • Breakpoint and Beyond: Mastering the Future Today (reference)

  • Business Process Reengineering: Breakpoint Strategies for Market Dominance (reference)

  • Molecular Analysis of a Chromosomal Translocation Breakpoint on the Short Arm of Chromosome 12 (reference)

  • The Coming Breakpoint (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: BREAKPOINT

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Colombia

This was the breakpoint that ignited a dramatic deterioration of profits, solvency ratios and portfolio indicators. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BREAKPOINT

"BREAKPOINT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.91% of the time. "BREAKPOINT" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)90.91%10111,207
Noun (proper)9.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%11N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BREAKPOINT

Expression using "BREAKPOINT": stalling speed at the 1g breakpoint. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BREAKPOINT

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

breakpoint

62

breakpoint chuck colson

5

breakpoint commercial

5

breakpoint exception

4

breakpoint hardcoded

3

breakpoint chlorination

3

breakpoint software

3

breakpoint colson

3
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Modern Translation: BREAKPOINT

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

Chinese 

  

转效点. (various references)

   

Danish

  

brudpunkt, breakpoint, afbrydelsespunkt. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

breekpunt (point at which a break is intended to occur), onderbrekingspunt, knikpunt (break, buckling point). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pysäytyskohta. (various references)

   

French

  

point d'interruption, point de rupture, point d'arrêt. (various references)

   

German

  

Anhaltepunkt, Stopp (freeze, halt, moratorium, stop, stoppage), Programmstop. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σημείο πάυσης, σημείο διακοπήσ, σημείο διακοπής. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

töréspont (cut-off point, turning point). (various references)

   

Italian

  

breakpoint, punto di interruzione. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eakpointbray

   

Portuguese

  

ponto de ruptura (point at which a break is intended to occur), ponto de paragem (staging point), ponto de interrupção. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

точечный разрыв. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prelomna tačka. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

repetidor de derivación, punto de interrupción, punto de derivación, punto crítico (critical point). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

brytpunkt (health insurance ceiling, trap). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BREAKPOINT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: atropine, baritone, obtainer, reobtain, taborine.

-3 letters: atropin, baronet, beatnik, bepaint, bornite, keratin, niobate, operant, painter, pertain, pointer, probate, pronate, protean, protein, ranpike, reboant, reitbok, repaint, taborin, tropine.

-4 letters: aroint, arpent, atoner, baiter, banker, banter, barite, beknot, binate, boater, bonier, bonita, borane, borate, broken, enrapt, entrap, inkpot, intake, kation, norite, obtain, opiate, orient, ornate.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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