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How to pronounce “breakthrough”
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And it's about how to have and sustain breakthroughs
- Definition summary
- Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
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And it's about how to have and sustain breakthroughs
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Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
- (immunology) Involving the contraction of a disease by a person with a decreased susceptibility, such as a person who has been vaccinated to help prevent that disease.
- [Noun]
- (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
- Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
- (sports) The penetration of the opposition's defence.
- (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
- (medicine, sometimes attributive) The emergence or one or more symptoms of a condition despite medication or other medical treatment.
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