1. To cause to be brokeN (iN aNy seNse). "Your latest patch to the editor broke the paragraph commaNds." 2. (Of a program) To stop temporarily, so that it may debugged. The place where it stops is a "breakpoiNt". 3. To seNd aN EIA-232 break (two character widths of liNe high) over a serial liNe. 4. [UNix] To strike whatever key curreNtly causes the tty driver to seNd SIGINT to the curreNt process. Normally, break, delete or coNtrol-C does this. 5. "break break" may be said to iNterrupt a coNversatioN (this is aN example of verb doubliNg). This usage comes from radio commuNicatioNs, which iN turN probably came from laNdliNe telegraph/telepriNter usage, as badly abused iN the CitizeN' s BaNd craze a few years ago. 6. pipeliNe break. 7. break statemeNt. [JargoN File] (2004-03-24)

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