Meaning of Breakthrough | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An advance through and past enemy lines.
2. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
3. The penetration of the opposition's defence.
4. The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
5. The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
   attributive, sometimes

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Examples

“Albert Einstein is credited with making some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern physics.”

“"Secondly, we have to find more cost-effective ways of electrifying. And we've had a real breakthrough in the last couple of years in terms of bridge clearances and immunisation, meaning we've been able to take hundreds of millions of pounds off the cost of electrification.”

“But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.”

“She was on two antiepileptics for five years but then had a breakthrough seizure.”

“He was managing his discomfort with common painkillers, but one morning he had breakthrough pain causing him to miss work.”

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