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  • Breaker (hydraulic)
    Breaker (hydraulic)
    A breaker is a powerful percussion hammer fitted to an excavator for demolishing concrete structures or rocks. It is powered by an auxiliary hydraulic system from the excavator, which is fitted with a foot-operated valve for this purpose...

    , an engineering vehicle attachment
  • Breaker (reef)
    Breaker (reef)
    A breaker is a piece of reef against which waves break.This sense of the term is closely related to another sense, that of the breaking wave itself. In times past, when ocean navigation was relatively rudimentary, a line of breaking waves was a crucial indicator that a boat was bearing down upon an...

    , a shallow over which waves break
  • Breaker (G.I. Joe)
    Breaker (G.I. Joe)
    Breaker is a character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s.-Profile:Breaker is the G.I. Joe Team's original communications officer and debuted in 1982. His real name is Alvin R. Kibbey, and his rank is that of corporal E-4. Breaker was born...

    , from the G.I. Joe comic universe
  • Breaker (album)
    Breaker (album)
    Breaker is the third album released by the heavy metal band Accept. It was once again recorded at Delta-Studio in Wilster with Dirk Steffens producing, and was the first Accept album engineered by Michael Wagener...

    , by heavy metal band Accept
  • The Breaker
    The Breaker
    For the novel about Breaker Morant, see Kit Denton.'The Breaker' is a crime novel by Minette Walters.-Synopsis:Twelve hours after the broken body of Kate Sumner washes up on a south England beach, her traumatised three-year-old daughter is found wandering the streets twenty miles away...

    , a book by Minette Walters
  • Circuit breaker
    Circuit breaker
    A circuit breaker is an automatically-operated electrical switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by overload or short circuit. Its basic function is to detect a fault condition and, by interrupting continuity, to immediately discontinue electrical flow...

    , an electrical overload switch
  • A type of ocean surface wave
    Ocean surface wave
    In fluid dynamics, wind waves or, more precisely, wind-generated waves are surface waves that occur on the free surface of oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, and canals or even on small puddles and ponds. They usually result from the wind blowing over a vast enough stretch of fluid surface. Some waves...