breakthrough

[ˈbreɪkθruː]

Definition:
1. A productive insight.
2. Making an important discovery.
3. A penetration of a barrier such as an enemy's defense.

Use 'breakthrough' in a sentence:

1. Scientists have discovered how the Ebola virus enters cells and infects humans, marking a major breakthrough in the battle against the virus after the deadly outbreak in West Africa in March 2014.
2. You will not find many brain scientists celebrating this breakthrough.
3. Researches on vegetable biological technique were developed early and got breakthrough.
4. BRP has a good record, having previously developed breakthrough products including the Ski-Doo snowmobile and the Sea-Doo personal watercraft.
5. Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.
6. The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, launched this year, takes an unrepresentative view of what the life sciences include.
7. The exchange of documents between Greece and its EU negotiating partners has gone on for so long with no breakthrough that it has been given its own name-"paperology".
8. What would be the biggest breakthrough over the next forty years?
9. A young scientist named Raymond Kurzweil has now designed a computer which is a major breakthrough in providing aid to the sightless.
10. It is a breakthrough comparable to our invention of the lambda sensor for the catalytic converter in 1976.
11. It's a long-awaited breakthrough for the International Wushu Federation (IWF), which made applications to the International Olympic Committee (100) in 2001, 2008 and 2011, but failed.
12. The smallest breakthrough can mean a great deal.
13. Making major breakthroughs in core technologies in key areas, China will become a global leader in innovation.
14. He finally made a breakthrough in peace talks with his effort.
15. The breakthrough for research into intersexual selection came in the development of a new technique for investigating female response in the laboratory.
16. It is imperative and judge the development trend, and find out the breakthrough point for the development of quantum science and technology in China.
17. Children in China lag behind in the ability to find breakthroughs in thinking and imagination compared with their foreign counterparts.
18. He made his major scientific breakthrough.
19. The enemy failed in their attempt to effect a breakthrough.
20. Scientists have made a breakthrough in their treatment of that disease.
21. A computer programme can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than human experts, researchers said in what they hoped could prove a breakthrough in the fight against the global killer.
22. The breakthrough came when I was introduced to Filaflex, which is a new kind of printing material.
23. Not long after that, Perkin made the scientific breakthrough that would bring him both fame and fortune.
24. And one museum in the US now wants to put these two breakthroughs side-by-side, displaying the whitest possible white alongside the blackest black.
25. This may have been an improvement, but "breakthrough" was an overstatement.
26. It is a breakthrough to extract key information from fathomable electrical measurements with appropriate mathematics tool.
27. This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement.
28. Realizing the importance of this breakthrough, he lost no time in patenting it.
29. This is a major breakthrough.
30. Then I had my breakthrough.
31. That marks a breakthrough.
32. If the scientist has not worked hard to develop his knowledge and skills, he may not recognize that lucky breakthrough when it comes along.
33. Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of cancer, bringing great hopes to those patients.
34. So why expect a breakthrough now?
35. The discovery is nothing less than a breakthrough.
36. It was a breakthrough for me.
37. China has seen breakthroughs in scientific explorations like the Tianwen-1 ( Mars mission), Chang'e-5 ( lunar probe), and Fendouzhe ( deep-sea manned submersible).
38. In the story of the Swifter, he argues, we have the key elements in producing breakthrough ideas: frustration, moments of insight and sheer hard work.
39. "It's often people like Steve Jobs who can draw from a deep reservoir of diverse experiences that often generate breakthrough ideas and insights," says Hal Gregersen, a professor at the European Institute of Business Administration.
40. We are seeking continuous, incremental improvements, not great breakthroughs.
41. This discovery was perceived as a major breakthrough.
42. We should aim for the frontiers of science and technology, strengthen basic research, and make major breakthroughs in pioneering basic research and groundbreaking and original innovations.
43. You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.
44. If such materials became generally available to the optics industry the payoffs from such a breakthrough would be enormous.
45. The breakthrough came hours before a UN deadline.
46. They announced, amid much ballyhoo, that they had made a breakthrough.
47. Exciting artistic breakthroughs have recently occurred in the fields of painting, sculpture and architecture.
48. With breast cancer, as with many common diseases, there is no obvious breakthrough on the horizon.
49. Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer.
50. God willing, there will be a breakthrough.
51. The company looks poised to make a significant breakthrough in China.