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Definition of Breakages
1. breakage [n] - See also: breakage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakages
Literary usage of Breakages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Earth and Its Story: A First Book of Geology by Angelo Heilprin (1899)
"It is a significant fact that nearly all the great breakages of the crust stand
in close relation with the making of mountains. Thus, the successive falls ..."
2. A Text-book of Coal-mining: For the Use of Colliery Managers and Others by Herbert W. Hughes (1904)
"Means of Minimising breakages.—Unfortunately breakages are common occurrences
with the endless chain. The proverb is quite true " that a chain is not ..."
3. The Steam Navy of England: Past, Present, and Future by Harry Williams (1893)
"... by the ships staff—Limits to this proposition considered-—Heavy breakages must
be made good by dockyards—But such breakages can be, generally speaking, ..."
4. The Mining and Smelting Magazine (1863)
"... arising from breakages ; and their dangerous consequence in burnings by the
acid, and nuisance to the neighbourhood, in the sudden discharge of large ..."
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