单词 | breakdown |
释义 | breakdown (once / 1648 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY breakdown: breakdowns USAGE EXAMPLESThis led to mathematical breakdowns of his decline and lists of reasons as to why he was no longer the same. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) The Huskies led 40-33 at the break despite a few defensive breakdowns just before halftime. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) He told me that he feared “a breakdown of civil order” if the team didn’t bounce back strong. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 1n the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London Syn|Hyper dislocation disruption, perturbation the act of causing disorder 2n a cessation of normal operation there was a power breakdown Syn|Hypo|Hyper equipment failure brake failure brakes fail to stop a vehicle engine failureengine does not run dud, misfirean explosion that fails to occur outagea temporary suspension of operation (as of computers) power failure, power outageequipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails fault(electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.) blackoutthe failure of electric power for a general region flame-outthe failure of a jet engine caused by an interruption of the fuel supply or by faulty combustion failure an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose 3n a mental or physical breakdown 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper crack-up nervous breakdown a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder nervous exhaustion, nervous prostrationan emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work neurasthenianervous breakdown (not in technical use) collapse, prostration an abrupt failure of function or complete physical exhaustion n an analysis into mutually exclusive categories Syn|Hypo|Hyper partitioning resolution, resolving analysis into clear-cut components factoring, factorisation, factorization(mathematics) the resolution of an entity into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original entity diagonalisation, diagonalizationchanging a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) analysis, analytic thinking the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations |
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