Break

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

Sports

• 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

Technology

• 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

Entertainment

• 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

Other

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

See also

• All pages beginning with "Break"
• All pages with titles containing "Break"
• Break a leg
• Breakwater (structure)
• Breakdancing
• Breaking (disambiguation)
• Brake (disambiguation)
• Broke (disambiguation)
• Burglary