0 In tennis if you win a break point, you have broken (= won a game against) the opposing player's serve .
As more force is applied, collagen fibres straighten until they reach a critical or break point, at which time the tissue tears.
Also, it has to be checked that two segments on both sides of a fixed break point are never merged.
A fixed break point, which may not be moved later in the piecewise modeling phase, permanently divides the time series into fixed segments.
The pressure "break point" below which resistance begins to vary inversely is approximately 40 mm of mercury.
A full-stop or semi-colon is considered to be a break point in the text.
There is no break point at which the reweighting starts or stops.
In phase 3, removal of two successive points is considered to produce a fixed break point; two break points are set at time instances 5 and 14.
Another possible criterion for setting a fixed break point is a simple heuristic: if the length of the removed segment exceeds some predefined threshold, a break point is set.
