0 the stage at which your control over yourself or a situation is lost:
1 the stage at which you lose control over yourself or over a situation:
2 the stage at which a person, company, system, etc. loses control over a situation and can no longer deal with their problems:
As the con-ict continued, and civilian casualties mounted, strains within the government increased almost to the breaking point.
It was one of the outlets that the local political culture allowed to desperate people who had reached the breaking point and could find no other remedy for their grievances.
This wildly unstable equilibrium between the communities strained communal relations to breaking point.
Where is the game-theoretic breaking point?
Unfortunately, his own dynastic policies would commit the army to military adventures that would test it to breaking point.
Space is dilated to a breaking point of what constitutes a safe and comfortable setback.
But the 1830s are a useful breaking point for understanding the political culture of the early republic and the place of middling and educated women in that culture.
Of course, there must come times when you reach the breaking point, and that has been reached on occasions.
