Overview of noun breakdown
The noun breakdown has 4 senses
- dislocation, breakdown -- (the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue; "the social dislocations resulting from government policies"; "his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London")
- breakdown, crack-up -- (a mental or physical breakdown)
- breakdown, equipment failure -- (a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown")
- breakdown, partitioning -- (an analysis into mutually exclusive categories)
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