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Grammar : Noun
Spell : brey-kij
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbreɪ kɪdʒ



Définition of breakage

Origin :
  • 1813, "action of breaking," from break (v.) + -age. Meaning "loss or damage done by breaking" is from 1848.
  • noun damage
Example sentences :
  • This liability to breakage is reduced, but not eliminated, by the asbestos annealing.
  • Extract from : « On Laboratory Arts » by Richard Threlfall
  • Abruptly, from the mizzen-mast, came a snap of breakage and crash of fabric.
  • Extract from : « The Mutiny of the Elsinore » by Jack London
  • He could afford to pay for the breakage; he would laugh at dismissal.
  • Extract from : « Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories » by Bret Harte
  • Sometimes the hook tears out, but most fish are lost by breakage.
  • Extract from : « Fishing in British Columbia » by Thomas Wilson Lambert
  • These were large and sound, and were more than a foot in diameter at the points of breakage.
  • Extract from : « Wild Life on the Rockies » by Enos A. Mills
  • The risk of breakage is so great that there is nothing to be gained.
  • Extract from : « The Potter's Craft » by Charles F. Binns
  • A parachute protects the instruments from breakage from too rapid fall.
  • Extract from : « Physics » by Willis Eugene Tower
  • Her endurance had been urged to the point of breakage, had given way.
  • Extract from : « Sudden Jim » by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • In 1747 there was less liqueur; the breakage amounted to one-third of the whole.
  • Extract from : « A History of Champagne » by Henry Vizetelly
  • In 1748 it was more vinous and less liquoreux; the breakage was only a sixth.
  • Extract from : « A History of Champagne » by Henry Vizetelly

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