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breakup [′brāk‚əp]
(hydrology)
The spring melting of snow, ice, and frozen ground; specifically, the destruction of the ice cover on rivers during the spring thaw.


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Breakup might be the ultimate solution for fixing the district's intractable problems.
The truth is that the breakup of AT&T left everyone with a great gain--much cheaper long distance rates--but with much poorer and more expensive local service.
The ongoing breakup attests that the cores of comets "are as fragile as the meringue in lemon-meringue pie," says Casey Lisse of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
 
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