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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