break·age

[brey-kij]
noun
1.
the act of breaking; state of being broken.
2.
the amount or quantity of things broken: There was a great deal of breakage in that shipment of glassware.
3.
an allowance or compensation for the loss or damage of articles broken in transit or in use.
4.
the money accrued by a racetrack from calculating the payoff to winning pari-mutuel bettors only in multiples of dimes for each dollar bet.

Origin:
1805–15; break + -age

re·break·age, noun
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breakage (ˈbreɪkɪdʒ) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  the act or result of breaking
2.  the quantity or amount broken: the total breakage was enormous
3.  compensation or allowance for goods damaged while in use, transit, etc

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Word Origin & History

breakage
1813, "action of breaking," from break + -age. Meaning "loss or damage done by breaking" is from 1848.
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Example sentences
It indicates that there must have been some breakage in their containment.
Scarcely a strain appears in her frame, and there is no breakage.
If it does this without loss or breakage then it has done its job.
So we're suggesting that double-strand breakage could be the molecular basis of
  this hypermutable state.
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