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▪ I. breakage1|ˈbreɪkɪdʒ|
[f. break v. + -age.]
1. The action or fact of breaking.
1813Wellington in Gurw. Disp. X. 373 There has already been much breakage. 1827Q. Rev. XXXV. 151 The breakage of the crockery was the grand coup-de-théâtre. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ii, In their [children's] wanton breakages and defacements, you shall discern a creative instinct.
b. Music. The change in the quality of the voice in passing from one ‘register’ to another.
1883Curwen Standard Course 105/2 It is remarkable that the change of breakage into this register should be just an octave higher than that into the thin register.
2. The results of breaking; loss or damage caused by breaking.
1848Arnould Mar. Insur. (1866) II. iii. i. 667 A certain per centage is fixed..as the ordinary amount of leakage and breakage for which the Underwriter is in no case liable. 1849Fleese Comm. Class-Bk. 77 When gold dust, or the precious metals in ore, are bought, the loss of weight or off⁓fall in refining, called in some places breakage.
3. An interruption caused by breaking; a break.
1871Farrar Witn. Hist. i. 36 Here then are miracles..breakages in the unbroken continuity. 1881Stokes in Nature No. 626. 614 If there was a breakage in the cable something like 300 miles off.
4. Naut. (see quot.)
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 130 Breakage, the leaving of empty spaces in stowing the hold.
▪ II. breakage2
var. form of brakeage. |