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English noun: breakdown | |||
| 1. | breakdown (act) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue | ||
| Samples | The social dislocations resulting from government policies. His warning came after the breakdown of talks in London. | ||
| Synonyms | dislocation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | disruption, perturbation | ||
| 2. | breakdown (state) a mental or physical breakdown | ||
| Synonyms | crack-up | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | collapse, prostration | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | nervous breakdown | ||
| 3. | breakdown (event) a cessation of normal operation | ||
| Samples | There was a power breakdown. | ||
| Synonyms | equipment failure | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | failure | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | brake failure, dud, engine failure, fault, misfire, outage, power failure, power outage | ||
| 4. | breakdown (cognition) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | ||
| Synonyms | partitioning | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | analysis, analytic thinking | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | resolution, resolving | ||
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