The ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project

Usage examples of groundbreaking.

Branitt: If the groundbreaking gets postponed, Miss Kimberly Lou Dixon won't be able to attend.

He describes the unsettling juxtaposition of laboriously struggling with complex string theory calculations at his desk while hearing the incessant rhythmic patter of Witten's keyboard, as paper after groundbreaking paper poured forth directly from mind to computer file.

In fact, through the initial efforts of Horowitz and Strominger, and through subsequent groundbreaking work of Polchinski, we now know even more about these BPS states.

By the time he'd finished his first lengthy conversation with her, she'd shifted from I can't possibly mode to possession of a flow-chart checklist and a coherent plan which would, with luck, result in groundbreaking as early as the following week.

There was no reason to believe Clapley wouldn't do the same, to expedite groundbreaking on his luxury resort community.

Ten months after the hunting fiasco at Wilderness Veldt, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Miami on the future site of the willie vasquez-washington senior high school.

Golf legend Jake Harp was accidentally shot Thursday during groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Falcon Trace Golf and Country Club Resort on North Key Largo.

His doctorate on cellular regeneration had been so groundbreaking that no less an authority than Dr.

A young reporter named Dave Albert was doing a series of manonthestreet interviews while he and his coworkers waited for the mayor and the governor to arrive for the groundbreaking ceremony.

A garden was planted, benches were introduced, and I received a phone call from a woman who asked me, as a prominent resident on the southern fringe of the Upper West Side, to come down and preside over the groundbreaking ceremony.

If they couldn't have relied on government support, and had to compete in the free-market economy of their day, it's unlikely that any of the scientists on my list would have been able to do their groundbreaking research.

The solution to this problem, developed first by Madrill in his groundbreaking work at the turn of the century, is via the Schwann cells—the nonneuronal cells that are present and which can serve to direct axon regrowth in peripheral nerves.

Now—with the convulsion triggered by the firing of the unbuffered shuttle engines, the manifestation of the wormhole’s inhabitants inside the shuttle, and the changes in the bands of radiation to allow the comm link to function—the accumulated information could be the basis for not just a groundbreaking but a definitive study of the wormhole’s fundamental nature.