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When something stops working so completely it becomes a category of failure.
means A collapse — of a machine, a person, a negotiation, or an analysis sorted into clean parts.
from From the literal sense of breaking down, splitting into pieces, dating to the 1800s for failed machinery; the emotional and itemized senses rode the same metaphor afterward.
Dual meaningFalling apart, or sorting neatly into parts.
Mechanical firstEngines broke down before people did.
The danceBreakdown is also frenzied energetic dancing.