breakout
See also: break out
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breakout (plural breakouts)
- An escape from prison.
- An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
- (aviation) The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
- An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
- 1988, Thomas Goodman, Stephanie Young, Smart Face, page 115:
- But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.
- A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
- A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
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(escape from prison):
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An escape from prison
An escape from any restrictive or confining situation
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An outbreak
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A breakdown of statistics
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breakout (not comparable)
- Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.
- 2009, Lisa Iannucci, Will Smith: A Biography, page 44:
- Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.
- (electronics, attributive) Splitting a signal into several signals.