breakthrough

Speech parts

1. breakthrough - Noun

2. breakthrough - Adjective

Meaning

making an important discovery

a penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense

a productive insight

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

find discovery brainwave development success increase revolution epiphany rise creation advanced break step progress advance
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Antonyms

old-fashioned exodus low old ancient avoid
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Hypernyms

brainwave find discovery insight penetration incursion

Phrases with the word

own breakthrough

Examples

The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. Bill Gates

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. K. Eric Drexler

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough. Marissa Mayer

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world. Bill Frist

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. Mike Fitzpatrick

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner. Mike Pence

Close letter words and terms

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