breakout

noun 5adj 2

Definitions

noun

1

An escape from prison.

2

An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.

3

The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.

4

An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).

But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.

5

A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.

adj

1

Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.

Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.

2

Splitting a signal into several signals.

breakout box; breakout cable

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