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breakpoint

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: breakpoints

A breakpoint is a marker that pauses a program so you can look inside. Set a breakpoint.

It stops everything at one line so the state can be examined, which is how most bugs are found. A breakpoint left in released code is an embarrassment that happens to everybody.

Simeon87 · Public domain

Definitions of breakpoint

  1. 1nounbreakpointA marker that pauses a program so you can look inside.C1

    “One breakpoint in the right place found it in about a minute.”

breakpoint is a marker.

Where it comes from

Break plus point, from breaking into a running program.

From break + point.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Computing & Code

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breakpoint in the wild

  • In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes.

    Breakpoint

  • More generally, a breakpoint is a means of acquiring knowledge about a program during its execution.

    Breakpoint

  • A breakpoint is an execution stop point in the code of a computer program.

    Breakpoint (disambiguation)

  • A breakpoint is a location referred to by meteorologists when issuing watches, warnings, or advisories, for specific areas.

    Breakpoint (meteorology)

  • The breakpoint cluster region protein (BCR) also known as renal carcinoma antigen NY-REN-26 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BCR gene.

    BCR (gene)

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