Break

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Break may refer to:

Break (locksmithing)
Recess (break), a general term for a period of time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties
Break (work), time off during a shift
- Coffee break, a daily social gathering for a snack and short downtime practiced by employees in business and industry
Annual leave (holiday/vacation), paid time off work granted by employers to employees to be used for whatever the employee wishes
Break (music), a percussion interlude or instrumental solo within a longer work of music
Section break, in type setting
Commercial break, in television and radio

Break (snooker), the first shot meant to break the balls in snooker and billiards
Break, a deviation of a pitched baseball from a regular path resulting from spin put on it by a pitcher
Break (surfing), place where a wave collapses into surf
Break, a basic air combat maneuver
Horse breaking, the process of training a horse to be ridden

break statement, a keyword in computer programming for flow control
Break key, a special key on computer keyboards
Break condition, in asynchronous serial communication
Break, or Brake (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage used in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Break.com, a popular college humor website
Break (Mamoru Miyano album), 2009
Break (Enchant album)
"Break" (Bottom), an episode of the British television sitcom Bottom
The Break (band), the Chicago alternative rock band
"Break" (song), a 2009 song by Three Days Grace from the album Life Starts Now
"Break", a song by somedaydream
"Break", a song by Alanis Morissette on the album Flavors of Entanglement
Break (film), a 2008 American film
Break (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers series
"Break", a re-occurring spell in Final Fantasy
A character appearing in the manga and anime series Pandora Hearts
Cosmic Break, an MMO Third Person Shooter Online Game

Bone fracture, a medical condition in which there is a break in the continuity of the bone
Prison escape