Breakpoint

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A point of discontinuity, change, or cessation.
  • n. Computer Science A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted for manual intervention.
  • n. A situation in tennis in which one more point is needed to break the opponent's serve.
  • n. The point awarded in such a situation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated.
  • n. The point where surface water waves are breaking in e.g. oceans, lakes, etc.
  • Word Usage
    ""In Sweden, we have what we call a breakpoint conversation, a communication about the transition to end-of-life care," Dr. Gunilla Lundquist, a palliative care specialist at Umea University and lead author of the study, told me in an interview."
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