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breakthrough
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun breakthrough has 3 senses
- breakthrough(n = noun.cognition) discovery, find - a productive insight; Array is a kind of brainstorm, brainwave, insight
- breakthrough(n = noun.act) Array - making an important discovery; Array is a kind of discovery, find, uncovering
- breakthrough(n = noun.act) Array - a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense; Array is a kind of incursion, penetration
Derived form verb break through2
CIDE DICTIONARY
breakthrough, n.
- a productive insight. [WordNet 1.5]
- a sudden change of situation, such as making an important discovery, that permits further rapid advances toward a goal. [WordNet 1.5]
- a penetration of an enemy's defense in depth and strength. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
breakthrough, n.
1 a major advance or discovery.
2 an act of breaking through an obstacle etc.
1 a major advance or discovery.
2 an act of breaking through an obstacle etc.
THESAURUS
breakthrough
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
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