soft break

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Synonyms: off break, short break

Antonyms: off break, short break

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|type of breakaway in cycling}} {{lb|en|cycling}} A [[breakaway]] that is allowed to go from the [[peloton]] in a [[stage]] [[race]] because it poses no [[strategic]] [[threat]] to any of the main [[contender]]s in the [[general classification]].
2. {{senseid|en|soft line break}} {{lb|en|computing}} A soft [[line break]]: any of certain kinds of [[line break]] (depending on [[implementation]] details) that cause a [[newline]] (i.e., [[line feed]] plus [[carriage return]]) inside a single [[paragraph]], rather than demarking a [[paragraph break]] ([[hard return]]).

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