English-Portuguese translations for breakdown

• avaria
  O problema reside nas avarias mecânicas. The problem lies with mechanical breakdown.
  Sabemos, contudo, que m fica a ganhar com esta avaria e quem fica a perder. We do know, though, who stands to gain from this breakdown and who stands to lose.
  As probabilidades de avaria e de ruptura crescem com a complexidade geográfica da rede. The likelihood of breakdowns and outages grows with the geographical complexity of the network.
• colapso
  Também estou muito preocupado com o colapso da ordem pública em geral.I am also very concerned at the breakdown of general law and order.
  De outra forma, isso irá provocar o colapso total das boas relações intercomunais de que desfrutamos actualmente. Otherwise, this will cause a total breakdown in the good intercommunal relations we enjoy at present.
  Está a haver um colapso generalizado no funcionamento do sistema imunitário humano. There is a widespread breakdown in the functioning of the human immune system.

Definition of breakdown

• A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
• A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
• Listing, division or categorization in great detail
• A detailed description of a forthcoming project, including the characters and roles required
• A musical technique by which the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, varying in heaviness depending on the genre
• A loss of organization (of the parts of a system
• A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, common in Southern United States African American music
• Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo
• The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music

Examples

• We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
• After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
• Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
• Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Related words

• breakdown truck
• breakdown lorry
• breakdown process
• breakdown service
• breakdown van
• breakdown triangle
• breakdown bay
• breakdown product
• nervous breakdown