You are here: irt.org | FOLDOC | break
1. To cause to be broken. "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.
6. pipeline break.
7. break statement.
(2004-03-24)
Nearby terms: BRB « breadcrumbs « breadth-first search « break » break-even point » breakpoint » break statement
FOLDOC, Topics, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, ?, ALL