1) to have, suffer a breakdown (he had a nervous breakdown)
2) a complete; mental; nervous breakdown
3) a breakdown in communications
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.
Breakdown — may refer to: *Electrical breakdown *Breakdown (Transformers) *Chemical breakdown *Decomposition *Mental breakdown *Breakdown, a statement explaining the details of something such as a bill or cost of a plan. *A script breakdown for a play, film … Wikipedia
Breakdown — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda «Breakdown» Sencillo de Mariah Carey con Bone Thugs n Harmony del álbum Butterfly Publicación 24 de marzo de 1998 Formato … Wikipedia Español
breakdown — break‧down [ˈbreɪkdaʊn] noun 1. [countable] a statement showing information or a total amount separated into parts so that it is easier to understand: • A spending breakdown showed the average household spent £47.70 on food per week. • Also in… … Financial and business terms
Breakdown — ist Breakdown (Film) ein Film mit Kurt Russell, der 1997 gedreht wurde Breakdown (Musik) ein Gitarren Riff, welcher hauptsächlich aus langsamen, intensiven 4/4 Downstrokes besteht. Breakdown (Zeichentrick) die Zerlegung einer Szene beim… … Deutsch Wikipedia
breakdown — can mean, in addition to its meaning in relation to machines, human health, and aspects of human behaviour, ‘an analysis of statistics or information’: • The breakdown of expenses…is relatively detailed in some cases but not in others J.… … Modern English usage
Breakdown — Break down , n. 1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. [1913 Webster] 2. (a) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
breakdown — [bʀɛkdawn] n. m. ÉTYM. 1949; mot angl. « effondrement » dans nervous breakdown, de to break down « tomber en se brisant ». ❖ ♦ Anglic. Dépression nerveuse … Encyclopédie Universelle
breakdown — (n.) a collapse, 1832, from BREAK (Cf. break) + DOWN (Cf. down). The verbal phrase is attested from late 14c. The noun, specifically of machinery, is from 1838; meaning an analysis in detail is from 1936. Nervous breakdown is from 1905 … Etymology dictionary
breakdown — [n1] nervous collapse basket case*, crackup*, disintegration, disruption, failure, mishap, nervous prostration, neurasthenia, neurosis, psychasthenia; concept 410 Ant. mental health breakdown [n2] account of finances or other business analysis,… … New thesaurus
breakdown — [brāk′doun΄] n. 1. an act, instance, or result of breaking down; specif., a) a failure to work or function properly [breakdown of a machine, of authority, etc.] b) a failure of health; physical, mental, or emotional collapse c) decomposition d) a … English World dictionary
Breakdown — Breakdown. См. Обжатие. (Источник: «Металлы и сплавы. Справочник.» Под редакцией Ю.П. Солнцева; НПО Профессионал , НПО Мир и семья ; Санкт Петербург, 2003 г.) … Словарь металлургических терминов
