the degree of tension or stress at which something breaks (psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial
If something or someone has reached breaking point, they have so many problems or difficulties that they can no longer cope with them, and may soon collapse or be unable to continue. The report on the riot exposed a prison system stretched to breaking point
The level of total new financing at which the cost of one of the financing components rises, thereby causing an upward shift in the weighted marginal cost of capital (WMCC) (Chapter 11)
In computer operations, a point at which a break-point instruction inserted in the routine will cause the machine to stop, upon a command from the operator, for a check of progress
By setting a break point using the debugger, the user specifies a position in the source code of a module where execution is to be suspended and control transferred to the debugger