Break

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Break may refer to:

• Recess (break), a general term for a period of time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties
• Break (work), time off during a shift
  • Coffee break, a daily social gathering for a snack and short downtime practiced by employees in business and industry
• Annual leave (holiday/vacation), paid time off work granted by employers to employees to be used for whatever the employee wishes
• Section break, in type setting
• Commercial break, in television and radio

Sports

• Break (snooker), the first shot meant to break the balls in snooker and billiards
• Break, to win a tennis game as the receiving player or team, thereby breaking serve
• Break, a deviation of a pitched baseball from a regular path resulting from spin put on it by a pitcher
• Surf break, place where a wave collapses into surf
• Horse breaking, the process of training a horse to be ridden

Military

• Break, a basic air combat maneuver

Technology

• Break, a type of horse-drawn carriage used in the 19th and early 20th centuries
• Break, a separation between pins of a lock
• Break condition, in asynchronous serial communication
• Break key, a special key on computer keyboards
• break statement, a keyword in computer programming for flow control
• Line break, a special character signifying the end of a line of text

Music

• Break (music), a percussion interlude or instrumental solo within a longer work of music
• Break (Enchant album), 1998
• Break (Mamoru Miyano album), 2009
• Break (One-Eyed Doll album), 2010
• "Break" (song), a 2009 song by Three Days Grace from the album Life Starts Now
• "Break", a song by somedaydream
• "Break", a song by Alanis Morissette on the album Flavors of Entanglement
• "Break", a song by Staind from Tormented

Other entertainment

• Break.com, a popular humor website
• "Break" (Bottom), an episode of the British television sitcom Bottom
• The Break, a 1995 American film
• Break (film), a 2008 American film
• Break (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers series
• "Break", a re-occurring spell in Final Fantasy

Other

• Bone fracture, a medical condition in which there is a break in the continuity of the bone
• Prison escape

See also

• All pages beginning with "Break"
• All pages with titles containing "Break"
• Break a leg
• Breakwater (structure)
• Breakdancing
• Breaking (disambiguation)
• Brake (disambiguation)
• Broke (disambiguation)
• Burglary

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