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  • noun Plural form of breakpoint.

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Examples

  • 'breakpoints' -- concentration of antibiotic that indicates resistance.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • Many funds have "breakpoints" in their fees; when assets rise above a certain level, providing economies of scale to the manager, expenses drop.

    Can the Supreme Court Undress High Fund Fees? 2009

  • Fee information would be near the top of the document, and it would include information on any "breakpoints," or sales-charge discounts available to people investing a substantial sum.

    As Returns Sag, 2008

  • Most funds have "breakpoints," where management fees are reduced automatically as assets cross certain levels.

    FOXNews.com Chuck Jaffe 2010

  • In short, these companies have carefully measured the "breakpoints" to find their customers 'true sensitivity to service level changes.

    BNET Articles 2009

  • During the downturn, fund assets were shrinking past "breakpoints," the price breaks a management firm gives investors as a fund grows past certain size markers.

    The Seattle Times 2009

  • You can get information on breakpoints at www. finra.org; look under "tools and calculators."

    Mutual fund fees add up, so don't pay more than you must 2010

  • In our physiology lab at Boulder Center for Sports Medicine, we use both methods but most importantly look at the associated power (watts), heart rate, and perceived effort at not only the breakpoints (or thresholds) but also across the continuum of effort from easy to threshold and to maximum effort.

    Training Center with BCSM: Are heart monitors still useful? 2011

  • Translocations and inversions cause problems if the breakpoints interrupt important genetic functions, or if pieces of the chromosome break off and become lost.

    Beckwith-Weidemann Syndrome 2009

  • The Amethyst Cylon debugger supports simple and conditional breakpoints and "break on hit count," SapphireSteel said.

    Microsoft Visual Studio users get Flash development capabilities 2010

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