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breakpoints
noun
Plural of breakpoint
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When I had my chances with the breakpoints he always served big.
They set the levels too low — five-per-cent declines are much more common in China than they are here — and made the breakpoints too close together.
The defending champion, Rafael Nadal, capitalized on five of his first six breakpoints to bounce Lukas Lacko of Slovakia in straight sets — 6-2, 6-2, 6-2.
When a bug surfaces, you will need to use breakpoints in your debugger to pause execution and inspect application state at various times.
A forehand into the net follows and Djokovic has two breakpoints.
However he sends two boomers down on breakpoints and holds on.
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According to James Blaut, an American historian, the year 1492 when Christopher Columbus landed in America and set off centuries of European colonialism—"represents the breakpoint between two fundamentally different evolutionary epochs".
This well-known example of translocation involves the fusion of a proto-oncogene called c-ABL, which is located on chromosome 9, to a site on chromosome 22 known as a breakpoint cluster region (BCR).
I've heard Swedish doctors call it a "breakpoint discussion," a systematic series of conversations to sort out when they need to switch from fighting for time to fighting for the other things that people value — being with family or travelling or enjoying chocolate ice cream.
"While it is difficult to determine with precision when the breakpoint will be reached … a major deleveraging must occur at some point — it cannot be forestalled forever," the report says.
Instead, it's asking the kinds of questions Susan Block laid out in her mental list for those "breakpoint discussions".
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