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breakpoint

n. 1 (context computing English) A point in a program at which operation may be interrupted during debugging so that the state of the program at that point can be investigated. 2 (context meteorology English) Location referred to when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories for specific areas. 3 (context physics English) The point where surface water waves are breaking in e.g. oceans, lakes, etc.

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BreakPoint

BreakPoint is a Christian worldview ministry founded in 1991 as a daily radio commentary by Chuck Colson. It continues to air each weekday, with commentary hosted by John Stonestreet or Eric Metaxas.

Commentaries are also available on the BreakPoint website, iTunes, Facebook, Twitter and OnePlace.com.

Breakpoint (demo party)

Breakpoint was a German demoscene party. From 2003 to 2010, it took place annually at Easter in Bingen.

Breakpoint was the successor to the legendary Mekka & Symposium. With over 1000 visitors, it was the world's biggest pure demoscene-party, attracting demosceners from not only Germany, but also from other European countries (e.g. Sweden, Finland, Poland, Spain), or even from overseas (for example Australia, Canada). The party was also the traditional host of the Scene.org Awards ceremony.

Breakpoint (disambiguation)

Breakpoint is an execution stop point in the code of a computer program.

Breakpoint may also refer to:

  • Breakpoint (demo party), a German demoscene party
  • Breakpoint Commentary, Chuck Colson's daily radio commentary
  • Breakpoints, in transformation theory the defining events that join a series of interlocking S-curves
  • Breakpoint, the gross sales amount that triggers payment of percentage rent under a retail commercial lease
  • Breakpoint (meteorology), a location referred to by meteorologists when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories for specific areas
  • Breakpoint (novel) by Richard A. Clarke, published in 2007
  • "Breakpoint", a song by Megadeth in the Hidden Treasures album
  • Breakpoint in Responsive web design, a boundary of screen width at which the layout should change to adapt to the screen size.
  • breakpoint, pseudonym and blog of German blogger Anne Nühm
Breakpoint (meteorology)

A breakpoint is a location referred to by meteorologists when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories, for specific areas. Breakpoints are used when coastal and offshore areas need to be warned of an impending weather event, usually pertaining to a hazard faced because of the water.

Breakpoints are typically defined by the name of a place or town on the coast, by a geographic feature, or by some combination of latitude and longitude. Breakpoints are used by various meteorological organizations worldwide, including the National Hurricane Center (NHC), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), and the National Weather Service (NWS).

Breakpoint (novel)

Breakpoint is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by former United States intelligence and counterterrorism official Richard A. Clarke. It is his second novel. The book paints a dystopic prediction of the future.

Usage examples of "breakpoint".

Each line represented a course to a new breakpoint into subspace, red being the longest course in normal space and green the shortest.

It took nineteen minutes to reach the next breakpoint, and in this time neither Nevv nor the Flat blinked once.

Nevv, and Hughes, all got at least a little fitful sleep before the next breakpoint arrived.

Her saving of the Library from the mob instigated by Cyril the Patriarch of Alexandria is the breakpoint between this universe and ours.

Constantine still gets born three centuries after the breakpoint and still plays a role recognizably similar to the one he had in real history.

Hypatia, at the breakpoint between this universe and ours, born 349 A.

Christianity and alliance with John Chrysostom, the breakpoint between this universe and ours.

Stath ships, including transports, passed our watch-ship at Breakpoint Secoy at 0811 yesterday, and is expected in the vicinity of Cyrene IV sometime tomorrow.

She was at breakpoint with her most recent beau, bored with his rugby, his healthy hedonism, the smooth self-assured way he embraced her in bed.

Colony 6 was a possible long-range problem, some day, because, despite its nearness to Flat territory, we were the ones to discover that nearby cluster of breakpoints into subspace, opening up promising routes for future colonization.

Now, the Nirauan cliffs took the challenge a step farther by adding unpredictable curves and breakpoints, with varying widths and depths, jutting rocks, and clinging tree vines.

So in a lot of ways the advantage, all the breakpoints went to the enemy and very few of the breakpoints went to us.

In an age when assertion tends to overwhelm evidence, when claim so easily trumps fact, they know precisely where the breakpoints lie.

We expect it to juggle with the switching matrix to try and bypass the power breakpoints that we introduce.

It was the regular Gottschalk technique: select an area where sales were below average, saturate it with rumors until someone's temper reached the breakpoint and the inevitable division occurred into blank and kneeblank, and then the following day take adof people's frayed nerves to sell guns, grenades and mines.