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- Dictionarybreak·through/ˈbrākˌTHro͞o/
noun
- 1. a sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development: "a major breakthrough in DNA research"
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an important discovery or event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to a problem: Scientists are hoping for a breakthrough in the search for a cure for cancer. A major breakthrough in negotiations has been achieved. Fewer examples. This drug has been heralded as a major breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer.
The meaning of BREAKTHROUGH is a sudden advance especially in knowledge or technique. How to use breakthrough in a sentence.
an important discovery or event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to a problem: Scientists are hoping for a breakthrough in the search for a cure for cancer. A major breakthrough in negotiations has been achieved. Fewer examples. This drug has been heralded as a major breakthrough in the fight against breast cancer.
any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase, as in scientific knowledge or diplomacy, that removes a barrier to progress: The jet engine was a major breakthrough in air transport.
n. 1. An act of overcoming or penetrating an obstacle or restriction. 2. A military offensive that penetrates an enemy's lines of defense. 3. A major achievement or success that permits further progress, as in technology. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
An amazing discovery or a huge amount of progress can be called a breakthrough. The discovery of penicillin in 1928 was a breakthrough for modern medicine. A personal breakthrough might be overcoming your fear of spiders once and for all.
5 meanings: 1. a significant development or discovery, esp in science 2. an action or event that represents the removal of a.... Click for more definitions.
BREAKTHROUGH meaning: 1 : a sudden increase in knowledge, understanding, etc. an important discovery that happens after trying for a long time to understand or explain something sometimes used before another noun; 2 : a person's first important success sometimes used before another noun.
Definition of breakthrough noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
BREAKTHROUGH definition: an important discovery or development that helps solve a problem: . Learn more.
