“In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. It is also sometimes simply referred to as a pause.” – Wikipedia
“Farnam Street give a very good explaination of the nature of break point — Multiplicative System.
What’s 1,506,789 x 9,809 x 5.56 x 0?
Hopefully you didn’t have to whip out the old TI-84 to solve that one. It’s a zero.
and that zero, is our concept of break points.
Break Point can be understand as Weakest Link in the multicaptive system, it could be place in the system intentionally, such as fuse in electrial circuits, or shar pins in boat propellers.” – Rational Pov
Source:
James Clear Mental Models Overview