Break

Breaking , partly breaking , stands for:

• emptying the contents of the stomach through the mouth, see vomiting
• the change in direction of a wave, refraction (physics)
• a material failure under loads, see fracture mechanics
• a manufacturing process from the group of cutting, see breaking (process)
• a process for the production of crushed minerals, see crusher (crushing machine)
• a processing step in the extraction of bast fibers, see breaking (fiber plants)
• deciphering an encrypted message without knowing the key, see breaking (cryptology)
• the resolution of umlauts into two independent sounds, see refraction (language)
• the use of different artistic styles, see style break
• the lack of correspondence between sentence structure and verse structure in poetry, see refraction (verse doctrine)
• the digging of wild boars in the ground, see hunter's language # B
• a municipality in the district of Limburg-Weilburg in Hessen, see Brechen (Hessen)
• a desert in the city of Hückeswagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, see break (Hückeswagen)
• the violation of a physical symmetry, see symmetry breaking

See also:

Wiktionary: break  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Wiktionary: refraction  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• fracture

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