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breakdown   (TTS Sound)

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)