Breaker may refer to:

Objects

* A

breaking wave In fluid dynamics, a breaking wave or breaker is a wave whose amplitude reaches a critical level at which large amounts of wave energy transform into Wave turbulence, turbulent kinetic energy. At this point, simple physical models that describ ...

on water, or a "breaker", a shallow over which waves break *

Circuit breaker A circuit breaker is an electrical safety device designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by an overcurrent or short circuit. Its basic function is to interrupt current flow to protect equipment and to prevent the risk ...

, an electrical overload switch * Breaker (hydraulic), a percussion hammer attached to an excavator

People

Breaker Morant Harry "The Breaker" Harbord Morant (born Edwin Henry Murrant, 9 December 1864 – 27 February 1902), more popularly known as Breaker Morant, was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, bush poet, military officer, and war criminal who was co ...

(1864-1902), Anglo-Australian folk hero, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal nicknamed "The Breaker" * Daniel Breaker (born 1980), American actor and comedian *

Ronald Breaker Ronald R. Breaker, Ph.D. (born 1964) is a Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University. He is best known for the discovery of riboswitches. His current research is focused on understanding advanced funct ...

, American biochemist and Yale professor * Someone who performs

B-boying Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance originating from the African American and Puerto Rican communities in the United States. While diverse in the amount of variation available in t ...

, also known as breakdancing

Places

Breaker Mountain Breaker Mountain is a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It is part of the Waputik Range. It was named in 1917 by Arthur O. Wheeler for the resemblance of a cornice on its summit to a breaking wave. See also * List o ...

, Canada *

Mount Breaker Mount Breaker () is a mountain with double summits, the eastern summit being, at , the highest on Horseshoe Island, off Graham Land. The name was given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee ...

, Graham Land, Antarctica *

Breaker Island Breaker Island is a small rocky island lying in Arthur Harbour close south-west of Norsel Point, off the south-west coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS ...

, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica *

Breaker Reef Breaker Reef () is an uninhabited island of Hong Kong which is part of Tai Po District, New Territories. It is located in Mirs Bay Mirs Bay (also known as Tai Pang Wan, Dapeng Wan, Dapeng Bay, or Mers Bay; ) is a bay in the northeast of Kat O ...

, Hong Kong, an uninhabited island

Arts and entertainment

* ''The Breaker'' (film), a 1974 documentary about Breaker Morant * ''Breaker'' (Accept album), 1981 * ''Breaker'' (For Today album), 2010 * ''Breaker'' (Vary Lumar album), 2014 * ''The Breaker'' (album), by Little Big Town, 2017 * ''The Breaker'' (manhwa), a Korean comic * ''Breaker'' (Black), an outdoor sculpture * Breaker (''G.I. Joe''), a fictional character * ''The Breaker'', a book by Minette Walters

Other uses

* , several US Navy ships * Ship breaker, a firm that engages in

ship breaking Ship-breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts, which can be sold for re-use, or for the extraction ...

, i.e. scrapping ships * A brand of lager brewed in the UK by Coors * Breaker fruit or breaker stage in the ripening of fruit