Dictionary Definition
breakthrough
Noun
2 making an important discovery
3 a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's
defense
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
breakthrough- characterized by major
progress or overcoming some obstacle
- a breakthrough technology
Translations
- Finnish: läpimurto-
- Hebrew: פורץ-דרך (poretz-derekh) , פורצת-דרך (poretzet-derekh)
- Spanish: punta (ej. tecnología punta).
Noun
breakthrough- In the context of "Military": An advance through and past enemy lines (or vice versa).
- Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a
significant obstacle.
- Albert Einstein is credited with making some of the greatest breakthroughs in modern physics.
Translations
military advance
- Dutch: doorbraak
- Finnish: läpimurto
- German: Durchbruch
- Spanish: brecha
major progress
- Dutch: doorbraak
- Finnish: läpimurto
- German: Durchbruch
- Hebrew: פריצת-דרך (pritzat-derekh)
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Breakthrough may refer to:
- in education:
- Breakthrough Collaborative, a multinational educational group.
- in games:
- Breakthrough (board game), an abstract strategy board game
- in health:
- Breakthrough Breast Cancer, a UK charity fighting breast cancer
- in human rights:
- Breakthrough (human rights), a human rights organization in the U.S. and India
- in the media:
- Breakthrough, a television program featuring Rod Parsley
- in militia:
- Breakthrough (military), a situation where an offensive force has broken through an enemy defensive line
- in social sciences:
- Breakthrough (Dutch political history), a Dutch political movement in the late 1940s
- Breakthrough (Transnistria), a political youth organization in Transnistria
- in music:
- The Breakthrough, an album by Mary J. Blige
- Break Through (album), an album by B'z
- Breakthrough (song), a song by Aya Hirano
- Breakthrough, a song by Modest Mouse from This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
- The Breakthrough, a song by LL Cool J from Bigger and Deffer
- "Breakthrough", a song by Richard Wright from Broken China
See also
breakthrough in Japanese:
Breakthrough
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious
attack, armed assault, assailing, assailment, assault, attack, avant-propos, banzai
attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, boost, charge, coinage, counterattack, counteroffensive, coup
de main, crippling attack, dead set at, descent on, discovery, diversion, diversionary
attack, drive, exordium, flank attack,
foreword, front matter,
frontal attack, frontispiece, gas attack,
head-on attack, hike,
increase, infiltration, innovation, introduction, invention, leap, lightning attack, lightning
war, mass attack, megadeath, mugging, neologism, new phase, novelty, offense, offensive, onset, onslaught, overkill, overture, panzer warfare,
postulate, preamble, preface, prefix, prefixture, preliminary, prelude, premise, presupposition, proem, prolegomena, prolegomenon, prolepsis, prologue, protasis, push, run against, run at, rush, sally, shock tactics, sortie, strike, unprovoked assault,
upgrade, verse, voluntary, wax