breakdown

Nouns

(n) the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
- the social dislocations resulting from government policies
- his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London
dislocation,
(n) a mental or physical breakdown crack-up,
(n) a cessation of normal operation
- there was a power breakdown
equipment failure,
(n) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories partitioning,

Synonyms

dislocation crack-up equipment failure partitioning

Words of close approximity