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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
breakthrough \break"through`\ n.
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a productive insight.
Syn: discovery, find.
a sudden change of situation, such as making an important discovery, that permits further rapid advances toward a goal.
(Mil.) a penetration of an enemy's defense in depth and strength.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle. n. 1 (context military English) An advance through and past enemy lines. 2 Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle. 3 (context sports English) The penetration of the opposition defence
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Breakthrough is an abstract strategy board game invented by Dan Troyka in 2000 and made available as a Zillions of Games file (ZRF). It won the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition, even though the game was originally played on a 7x7 board, as it is trivially extensible to larger board sizes.
Breakthrough or Break through may refer to:
- Tunnel hole-through, also known as breakthrough, when the two ends of a tunnel under construction meet
- Breakthrough (military), a situation where an offensive force has broken through an enemy defensive line
- Emergency breakthrough, a function on land line telephones that allows a caller to interrupt a phone conversation of another caller
- Epiphany (feeling), a situation where one experiences the feeling of overcoming a sudden doubt or intellectual discovery ( insight).
"Breakthrough" is the debut single by Japanese singer and voice actress Aya Hirano. It was first released in Japan on March 8, 2006 and was produced by Lantis. "Breakthrough" and "Ichiban Boshi" were the opening and ending themes of the Japanese PlayStation 2 visual novel Finalist, respectively.
A breakthrough occurs when an offensive force has broken the enemy defensive line, and is rapidly exploiting the gap.
Usually, large force is employed on a relatively small portion of the front to achieve this. While the line may have held for a long while prior to the breakthrough, the breakthrough marks a relatively small time frame where the pressure on the defender leads him to "snap" in a very short time span.
As the first unit breaks, the adjacent units suffer adverse results from this (spreading panic, additional defensive angles, threat to supply lines) and, since they were already pressured as well, leads them to "snap" as well, causing a domino-style collapse of the defensive system. The defensive force thus evaporates at the breakthrough point, giving the attacker the option to rapidly move troops into the gap, exploiting the breakthrough in width (by attacking enemy units at the edge of the breakthrough, so widening it), in depth (advancing into enemy territory and strategic objectives), or a combination of both.
Breakthrough is a global human rights organization working to end violence against women and girls.
The Doorbraak (literally: Breakthrough) was an attempt to renew the politics of the Netherlands after the Second World War.
After the Second World War, there was widespread feeling amongst progressives that the pillarized political system should be broken open. No longer should Roman Catholic people vote for the Catholic RKSP simply because they were Catholic or Reformed people for the Anti Revolutionary Party simply because they were Reformed. Instead, political issues should structure the political system. The progressives were united in their vision of a democratic socialist Netherlands.
In order to force this breakthrough, the socialist SDAP, the left-liberal VDB and the Christian-socialist CDU united to form the PvdA, a progressive party, which was open to all people. The new party did not, however, gain enough support under Catholics or Reformed and the PvdA became encapsulated in the socialist pillar.
In 1966, social liberal D66 attempted another breakthrough of the pillarized political system, again unsuccessfully.
Category:Political history of the Netherlands Category:Labour Party (Netherlands)
Breakthrough is a 1979 war film set on the Western Front. The picture is a sequel to Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron, and includes several characters from that film.
The film starred several big names including Richard Burton, Robert Mitchum and Rod Steiger. Burton (Sergeant Steiner) and Helmut Griem (Major Stransky) assume the roles played by James Coburn and Maximilian Schell respectively in the original film. The supporting cast features Michael Parks and Curd Jürgens.
Breakthrough is an album by the Don Pullen- George Adams Quartet recorded in 1986 for the Blue Note label.
Breakthrough is the first studio album by American hip hop DJ The Gaslamp Killer. It was released on Brainfeeder on September 17, 2012. The album features guest appearances from Gonjasufi, Daedelus, and Samiyam, among others.
Breakthrough is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat. The album was released on August 19, 2009 through Universal Republic Records. The follow-up to her successful debut album, Coco (2007), Breakthrough was developed in late 2008 when Caillat returned to her home after two years on tour, with the singer setting up a "writing camp" with songwriters and producers in Hawaii and writing over 40 songs for the record.
Inspired by the fact that she was trying to find herself again and breaking the creativy chains that surrounded her, Breakthrough deals with themes of growing up, experiencing life, love, making mistakes and learning from them, as well as heartbreak and why everlasting love seems elusive. To help develop her expected sound and lyrics, Caillat worked with previous collaborators, such as Mikal Blue, Ken Caillat and Jason Reeves, while working for the first time with Kara Dioguardi, Rick Nowels, John Shanks and Greg Wells.
Breakthrough received generally mixed to favorable reviews from contemporary music critics, with some praising its rich texture and for being a consistent album with catchy tracks, while others dismissing its title and finding issues with some of the song's lyrics. The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards. Commercially, it was successful in the United States, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200, selling 106,000 copies in its first week, becoming her first album to top the Billboard charts. Elsewhere, it reached the top-ten in four countries, while failing to replicate the success of her debut album in other territories.
The album produced two singles. The first single, " Fallin' for You", was released on June 29, 2009 and was a success on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number twelve, while also finding success on the Adult radio. Elsewhere, it was a moderate hit. The second single, " I Never Told You", was released on February 16, 2010, and found similar success on the Adult charts, while being more moderate on the Billboard Hot 100. To promote the record, Caillat embarked on her Breakthrough World Tour (2009-2010).
"Breakthrough" is a song performed by the cast of Lemonade Mouth, formed by Bridgit Mendler, Adam Hicks, Hayley Kiyoko, Naomi Scott and Blake Michael. The song was written Bryan Todd, Maria Christensen, Shridhar Solanki and Adam Hicks and produced by Twin & Bryan Todd. It was released as the album's third and final single, releasing on May 2, 2011 through Walt Disney Records.
Breakthrough was a 1950 film starring John Agar about an American infantry unit in World War II. Approximately one-third of the film was assembled from preexisting footage.
Breakthrough is a scientific documentary television series on National Geographic Channel that premiered on November 1, 2015. It is produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. All of the episodes are directed by guest directors such as Friday Night Lights creator Peter Berg, actors Paul Giamatti and Angela Bassett, screenwriter Akiva Goldsman and director Brett Ratner.
The series covers current scientific "breakthroughs" in the present day, such as, fighting pandemics, robotics, and aging.
On the inspiration, Grazer said on the Nerdist Podcast he wanted something like the ESPN documentary series 30 for 30 but for science
Usage examples of "breakthrough".
Rundstedt, commander of Army Group A, the main force which had launched the breakthrough over the Meuse, backed him up when they conferred later in the day.
The situation has become more critical as the result of the breakthrough between Maloyaroslavets and Borovsk.
No one tries to conceal from me the unhappiness over the news of the breakthrough on the Russian front.
German front in Normandy would collapse and that a breakthrough into Germany by the Allies could not be checked .
Hodges, advanced with equal speed into southeastern Belgium, reaching the Meuse River, from which the devastating German breakthrough had begun in May 1940, and capturing the fortresses of Namur and Liege, where the Germans had no time to organize a defense.
Aachen, the old imperial capital, the seat of Charlemagne, surrendered to First Army on October 24 after a bitter battle - the first German city to fall into Allied hands - but the Americans had been unable to achieve a breakthrough to the Rhine.
The offensive would strike swiftly through the Ardennes, where the great breakthrough in 1940 had begun, and which German intelligence knew to be defended only by four weak American infantry divisions.
He had assembled some twenty-eight divisions, including nine panzer divisions, for the Ardennes breakthrough, with another six divisions allotted for an attack in Alsace to follow the main offensive.
In the era of Big Science, breakthrough technical papers were more likely to carry dozens and dozens of coauthors.
A mere accident, right when he was about to make a breakthrough on the dangerous Soviet work he had sworn never to repeat?
Lord eventually 72 would achieve a major breakthrough by developing an important new drug.
Also like others, he had long dreamed of achieving, personally, a major breakthrough, a discovery which would push back dramatically the frontiers of knowledge and place his name in the honor roll of history.
Our last major breakthrough was with Lotromycin, nearly fifteen years ago.
And yet, he reasoned-reassured himself-despite the changes and fresh knowledge, the possibility of a titanic breakthrough with the work he had been doing still was possible, still could come at any time.
But supposing, after Harlow was discontinued, one of those other scientists had a sudden breakthrough, a breathtaking discovery which might bave happened at Harlow had they carried on.