breakthrough

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Breakthrough stands for:

  • Breakthrough of a river through a mountain range, see breakthrough valley
  • the creation of a textile pattern by detaching or cutting out parts, see breakthrough work
  • Eruption of teeth from the jaw into the oral cavity, see Dentition
  • Current flow of a diode in reverse direction, see diode # breakdown
  • Penetration of a tissue or hollow organ, see Perforation # Medicine
  • a breakthrough development in science or technology
  • Breakthrough (military) , in the military, breaking through enemy lines, for example a siege ring
  • Breakthrough (comic) , a comic anthology published by Pierre Christin and Andreas C. Knigge on the occasion of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990
  • Breakthrough (adsorption) , a term from process engineering

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