Breach
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Breach may refer to the following.
People named Breach:
- Nicholas Breach, a photographer
Places named Breach in United Kingdom:
In law:
- Breach of confidence, a common law tort that protects private information that is conveyed in confidence
- Breach of contract, a situation in which a binding agreement is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract
- Breach of promise, a former tort
- Breach of the peace, a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries
- Efficient breach, a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable
- Fundamental breach, a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract
In science and technology:
- Breaching, a whale's leap out of the water
- Breach birth
- Door breaching, a series of techniques used to open locked doors
- Breaching experiment, a social experiment that tests people's reactions to the violation of accepted social norms
In entertainment:
- "The Breach" (Enterprise episode), a second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
- Warp core breach, a catastrophic event aboard a starship in the Star Trek fictional universe
- (Breach), a 2000 album by The Wallflowers
- Breach (comics), a 2005 comic book series from DC Comics
- Breach (film), a 2007 film directed by Billy Ray starring Chris Cooper about Robert Hanssen.
- Breach (band), a Swedish hardcore punk band