breakdown

Noun

• an analysis into mutually exclusive categories

• a cessation of normal operation
  • there was a power breakdown
    

• a mental or physical breakdown

• the act of disrupting an established order so it fails to continue
  • the social dislocations resulting from government policies
    
  • his warning came after the breakdown of talks in London
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  partitioning , equipment failure , crack-up , dislocation