Noun

(en noun)

Something that distracts.

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The process of being distracted.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)

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Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.

* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.

Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.

* Richard Baxter

if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction , it is no oath, and so not obligatory.

Noun

The act by which something is broken.

* 2009 , John Renard, Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation (page 53)

We, on the other hand, do not reject the occurrence of breakings of the natural order of things that occur in connection with a prescribed proclamation

(linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong

(music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones

break dancing

* 2014 , Karen Schupp, Studying Dance: A Guide for Campus and Beyond (page 48)

The urban dance genre includes breaking , waacking, and house dancing, among others.