Breakthrough
noun
A sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development.
The breakthrough in research will aid in the treatment of cancer
Often appears as...
- major breakthrough
- breakthrough discovery
noun
An instance of achieving success in a particular sphere or activity.
His breakthrough came when he secured the leading role in a film
Often appears as...
- big breakthrough
- experience a breakthrough
noun
A military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defence.
The army made a breakthrough in enemy lines
Often appears as...
- military breakthrough
- breakthrough attack
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Technical
noun
To go beyond or climb above something and get through it.
The rock climber made a breakthrough through the hard cliff
Often appears as...
- physical breakthrough
- emotional breakthrough
noun
A sudden, dramatic, and important discovery or development.
The breakthrough in research will aid in the treatment of cancer
Often appears as...
- major breakthrough
- breakthrough discovery
noun
An instance of achieving success in a particular sphere or activity.
His breakthrough came when he secured the leading role in a film
Often appears as...
- big breakthrough
- experience a breakthrough
noun
A military movement or advance all the way through and beyond an enemy's front-line defence.
The army made a breakthrough in enemy lines
Often appears as...
- military breakthrough
- breakthrough attack
Usage tips
Technical
noun
To go beyond or climb above something and get through it.
The rock climber made a breakthrough through the hard cliff
Often appears as...
- physical breakthrough
- emotional breakthrough
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Success
Often used when progress happens sooner than expected or surpasses expectations.
The scientist's breakthrough defied all odds.
Pro Tip 2/3Wide Impact
Emphasizes the broad influence of a discovery or development across an industry or society.
Her breakthrough affected the entire field of renewable energy.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Development
Implies progress and carries a positive connotation, signaling meaningful improvement.
The new policy was a breakthrough for environmental protection.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Success
Often used when progress happens sooner than expected or surpasses expectations.
The scientist's breakthrough defied all odds.
Pro Tip 2/3Wide Impact
Emphasizes the broad influence of a discovery or development across an industry or society.
Her breakthrough affected the entire field of renewable energy.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Development
Implies progress and carries a positive connotation, signaling meaningful improvement.
The new policy was a breakthrough for environmental protection.
Pro Tip 1/3Unexpected Success
Often used when progress happens sooner than expected or surpasses expectations.
The scientist's breakthrough defied all odds.
Pro Tip 2/3Wide Impact
Emphasizes the broad influence of a discovery or development across an industry or society.
Her breakthrough affected the entire field of renewable energy.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Development
Implies progress and carries a positive connotation, signaling meaningful improvement.
The new policy was a breakthrough for environmental protection.
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2016 Breakthrough Junior...
engage in the idea that you're really excited about you start to understand it in a deeper way than ever before that allows you to both internalize and share with other people it's always better to know things rather than not to know them there's no limit to what your video can be like we want the breakthrough junior
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Paul Giamatti on Human...
doing the interviewing in an episode of breakthrough called more than human it was out of left field for me I mean I've obviously never done anything like this but the guy that I know was helping produce it david jacobson came to me and told me what the whole project was and then they said these are the subjects
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Why modern renewable...
bottom line bulk electricity storage and fossil fuel backup are the costliest ways to make the grid more flexible so we would use them last not first a breakthrough in cheap bulk storage would be helpful but not vital we needn't wait for it and the market isn't waiting only the myth holds us back thank you
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Improving Life with...
participating in their breakthrough series on a show called more than human they asked us to bring Fortis exoskeleton and demonstrate some of the applications Fortis was designed to help the user take heavy weight off their body where they experience muscle fatigue for holding up heavy tools there
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Neil deGrasse Tyson...
barrier through which you pass with some force okay otherwise we'd be walk through instead of breakthrough but I would claim that most discoveries or walkthroughs not breakthroughs not actually breaking things you sell you've got that you got that let me put it
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How did clouds get their...
Clouds write a kind of journal on the sky that allows us to understand the circulating patterns of weather and climate. Perhaps the most important breakthrough in understanding clouds was realizing that they are subject to the same physical laws
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Bill Gates: The next...
Finally, we need lots of advanced R&D in areas of vaccines and diagnostics. There are some big breakthroughs, like the Adeno-associated virus, that could work very, very quickly. Now I don't have an exact budget for what this would cost,
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Angela Bassett on the...
there are great minds and big hearts who are coming up with ideas and solutions to this increasing problem of lack of water I see breakthroughs happening all over the world wherever there's man and woman
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The hidden worlds within...
there are hidden laboratories where scientific breakthroughs are made. Beyond the unmarked doors, and on the floors the elevators won't take you to, you'd find windows into amazing worlds.
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Ants Rip Queen's Legs...
and breakthrough into the royal bunker the corral queen and her broods are trapped and completely helpless
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2016 Breakthrough Junior...
engage in the idea that you're really excited about you start to understand it in a deeper way than ever before that allows you to both internalize and share with other people it's always better to know things rather than not to know them there's no limit to what your video can be like we want the breakthrough junior
Video examples
Paul Giamatti on Human...
doing the interviewing in an episode of breakthrough called more than human it was out of left field for me I mean I've obviously never done anything like this but the guy that I know was helping produce it david jacobson came to me and told me what the whole project was and then they said these are the subjects
Video examples
Why modern renewable...
bottom line bulk electricity storage and fossil fuel backup are the costliest ways to make the grid more flexible so we would use them last not first a breakthrough in cheap bulk storage would be helpful but not vital we needn't wait for it and the market isn't waiting only the myth holds us back thank you
Video examples
Improving Life with...
participating in their breakthrough series on a show called more than human they asked us to bring Fortis exoskeleton and demonstrate some of the applications Fortis was designed to help the user take heavy weight off their body where they experience muscle fatigue for holding up heavy tools there
Video examples
Neil deGrasse Tyson...
barrier through which you pass with some force okay otherwise we'd be walk through instead of breakthrough but I would claim that most discoveries or walkthroughs not breakthroughs not actually breaking things you sell you've got that you got that let me put it
Video examples
How did clouds get their...
Clouds write a kind of journal on the sky that allows us to understand the circulating patterns of weather and climate. Perhaps the most important breakthrough in understanding clouds was realizing that they are subject to the same physical laws
Video examples
Bill Gates: The next...
Finally, we need lots of advanced R&D in areas of vaccines and diagnostics. There are some big breakthroughs, like the Adeno-associated virus, that could work very, very quickly. Now I don't have an exact budget for what this would cost,
Video examples
Angela Bassett on the...
there are great minds and big hearts who are coming up with ideas and solutions to this increasing problem of lack of water I see breakthroughs happening all over the world wherever there's man and woman
Video examples
The hidden worlds within...
there are hidden laboratories where scientific breakthroughs are made. Beyond the unmarked doors, and on the floors the elevators won't take you to, you'd find windows into amazing worlds.
Video examples
Ants Rip Queen's Legs...
and breakthrough into the royal bunker the corral queen and her broods are trapped and completely helpless
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Steven Johnson
American Author
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
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Marc Andreessen
American Businessman
It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.
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Jonathan Ive
English Designer
It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.
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Mary J. Blige
American Musician
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
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Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
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Jason Mraz
American Musician
Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
American Inventor
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
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Yves Behar
Swiss Designer
Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
Quote examples
Steven Johnson
American Author
What you end up seeing when you look at history is that people who have been good at pushing the boundaries of possibility, and exploring those frontiers of good ideas and innovations, have rarely done it in moments of great inspiration. They don't just have a brilliant breakthrough idea out of nowhere and leap ahead of everyone else.
Quote examples
Marc Andreessen
American Businessman
It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product. I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.
Quote examples
Jonathan Ive
English Designer
It's easy to think that craft can't change but important to remember that all craft process was at some point new, at some point challenged convention - not to be contrary, but enabled by some breakthrough, some newly discovered principle, or sometimes some wonderful accident.
Quote examples
Mary J. Blige
American Musician
In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.
Quote examples
Richard P. Feynman
American Physicist
When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.
Quote examples
Jason Mraz
American Musician
Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.
Quote examples
R. Buckminster Fuller
American Inventor
One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.
Quote examples
Yves Behar
Swiss Designer
Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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Mitch Kapor
American Businessman
Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.
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Peter Singer
Australian Philosopher
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world.
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