Damage or breakage event that compromises the functioning of a system or a machine.
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This year the Northern Ireland political pendulum oscillated between breakthrough and breakdown.
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With fears of a breakdown in public order, governments introduced emergency measures.
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The rise of divorce means more children are dealing with family breakdown.
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The vote breakdown will be disclosed at a later point in time.
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She encouraged the general idea of the verge of a nervous breakdown.
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The exact breakdown of his travels over the past year remains unclear.
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Every rider travels with a support crew, just in case of breakdown.
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The action saved her from a breakdown; and she went in calmly.
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The breakdown Wales's tactical approach is easily seen in their team selection.
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New Zealand's work at the back of the breakdown was also sloppy.
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We have only recently recovered from the resulting breakdown in social order.
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A breakdown in communications on Saturday, however, put paid to those plans.
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There has been a fearful breakdown of internal civil order in Serbia.
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It was a total breakdown; the army had disappeared, and the artillery.
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The company does not provide a breakdown of revenues from individual countries.
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They looked for breakdown products of a phthalate chemical known as DEHP.
