Usually means: Limit where stability collapses under stress.
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  1. breaking point: Merriam-Webster
  2. breaking point: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. breaking point: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. breaking point: Collins English Dictionary
  5. breaking point: Vocabulary.com
  6. breaking-point: Wordnik
  7. breaking point: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. breaking point: Wiktionary
  9. breaking point: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. breaking point: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. breaking point: Dictionary.com
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  13. breaking point: Rhymezone
  14. breaking point: FreeDictionary.org
  15. breaking point: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. breaking point: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. breaking point: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Breaking Point (band), Breaking Point (disambiguation), breaking point: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breaking point: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. breaking point: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (breaking point)

noun:  (mechanics) The point at which the increasing strain in a material causes it to break.
noun:  (figurative) The point at which a person or system succumbs to stresses or pressures and descends into crisis.

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