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n. (context statistics of an estimator English) The number or proportion of arbitrarily large or small extreme values that must be introduced into a batch or sample to cause the estimator to yield an arbitrarily large result.
Usage examples of "breakdown point".
And even if there had been no decentralization, no breakup of the culture, it would eventually have happened, for somewhere along the line of technology there must be a breakdown point.
You do it by inbreeding until the end product is dangerously near breakdown point, either through extreme nervous tension, as in our case, or through sterility.
But the trouble was that some of the equipment they'd brought through the Ring of Fire was beginning to reach breakdown point.
I would have felt better if they had come here directly and, eventually, brought you here with them, but their decision was based on the fact that Gladias establishment was closer to the breakdown point of the airfoil and that your orders had been extremely intense and had placed Daneels safety ahead of your own.
I would have felt better if they had come here directly and, eventually, brought you here with them, but their decision was based on the fact that Gladia's establishment was closer to the breakdown point of the airfoil and that your orders had been extremely intense and had placed Daneel's safety ahead of your own.