breakage
Syllables: break·age/ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/
breakage noun: the act of breaking.
Noun
breakage (countable and uncountable, plural breakages)
- The act of breaking.
- A loader performs the important work of storing goods in the wagons and of unloading the wagons. In each case considerable skill is required to avoid breakage, and, in the case of loading, skill goes far to conserve wagon space.1944 March and April, T. F. Cameron, “The Working of Marshalling Yards and Goods Sheds”, in Railway Magazine, page 85
- Something that has been broken.
- At the end of the party, there were two reported breakages.
- A service which is unused by a customer, such as an unredeemed gift card, which therefore represents a pure profit to the seller.
- The left-over money in a pari-mutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the pool for the next race or event or kept as profit.
breakage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
breakage in Hindi
- breakage, breaking
- शिकस्त śikast
breakage in Tamil
- உடைப்பு, தொடர்பறுதல், தொடர்பு முறிவு, முட்டுக்கட்டை, அறுப்பு, ஒடிதல்
breakage in Urdu
- شکست
breakage in Bengali
- breakage
- ভাঙচুর bhangcur
More languagesFewer languages
- breakage in Malayalam
- പൊട്ടൽ, തകർച്ച
- breakage in Kannada
- ಒಡತೆ
Examples of breakage in a sentence
- Hyrum's law tells us that a failure to maintain bug compatibility in newer editions will surely lead to breakages, even if the API never promised those behaviors to begin with.
- The process was controlled through oscillograms that showed the moments of breakage of the graphite rods.
- With these implosion systems, breakage of the faceplate causes the tube to devacuate without a violent implosion.
Forms of breakage
| plural | breakages |
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Origin of breakage
From break + -age.
Words formed from breakage
Words that rhyme with breakage
Questions about breakage
- What does breakage mean?
- Breakage means the act of breaking.
- What is breakage in Hindi?
- Breakage in Hindi is शिकस्त (śikast). See Breakage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is breakage?
- Breakage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce breakage?
- Breakage is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪkɪd͡ʒ/.
- What is the plural of breakage?
- The plural of breakage is breakages.
Words near breakage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: breakage (page history and authors); शिकस्त (Hindi) (page history and authors); breakage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); breakage (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ভাঙচুর (Bengali) (page history and authors); breakage (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); breakage (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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