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/recess
  • Coffee break, a daily social gathering for a snack and short downtime practiced by employees in business and industry
• Break (opportunity), sometimes called a "big break", a circumstance which allows an actor or musician to "break into" the industry and achieve fame
• Annual leave (holiday/vacation), paid time off work granted by employers to employees to be used for whatever the employee wishes
• Holiday break, a U.S. term for various school holidays
• Spring break, a recess in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere
• 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
• Breaking ball, a pitch that does not travel straight like a fastball as it approaches the batter
• Surf break, place where a wave collapses into surf
• Horse breaking, the process of training a horse to be ridden
• Break, to win a tennis game as the receiving player or team, thereby breaking serve; see Glossary of tennis terms

Technology

• Brake (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage used in the 19th and early 20th centuries
• Break (locksmithing), 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 (computing), a special character signifying the end of a line of text
• To break an encryption cipher is to successfully perform cryptanalysis
• Breakover angle, the maximum possible supplementary angle that a vehicle can drive over without the apex of that angle touching any point of the vehicle other than the wheels
• Paradelta Break, an Italian paraglider design

Books

• The Break (novel), novel by José Giovanni
• The Breaks (novel), novel by Richard Price

Film and TV

• Break (film), a 2008 American film
• The Break (film), a 1995 American film
• The Break (TV series), Belgian television series, also known as La Trêve
• The Break (2003 film), a TV film featuring Kris Kristofferson
• The Break, alternate name for A Further Gesture, a 1997 film
• The Breaks (2016 film)
• The Breaks (1999 film)
• The Breaks (TV series)
• "Break" (Bottom), an episode of the British television sitcom Bottom
• Break (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers series
• Break.com, a popular humor website

Music

• Break (music), a percussion interlude or instrumental solo within a longer work of music

Albums

• Break (Enchant album), 1998
• Break (Mamoru Miyano album), 2009
• Break (One-Eyed Doll album), 2010
• Break (EP), a 2006 EP by The Cinematics

Songs

• "Break" (Three Days Grace song), a 2009 song by Three Days Grace from the album Life Starts Now
• "Break", a song by Alanis Morissette on the album Flavors of Entanglement
• "Break", a song by Staind from Tormented (Staind album)
• "Break", a 2013 song by Hostyle Gospel from the album Desperation
• "Break", a 1972 song by Aphrodite's Child
• "Break", a 2006 song by The Cinematics
• "Break", a 1995 song by The Gyres
• "Break", a 1984 song by Kleeer
• "Break", a 2015 song by No Devotion from Permanence
• "Break", a 1984 song by Play Dead (band)
• The Breaks (Kurtis Blow song) 1980

Other

• Bone fracture, a medical condition in which there is a break in the continuity of the bone
• Prison escape
• Break, a basic air combat maneuver; see Basic fighter maneuvers
• Breakbeat
• Bone fracture
• Brakes

See also