• Finnish: murtuminen

• French: brèche
• Ido: brecho
• Italian: breccia
• Korean: 위반
• Spanish: brecha

Verb

1. To break (in the above senses)
2. , to break into a ship or into a coastal defence
3. In the context of "of a whale": to leap clear out of the water

Breach may refer to the following.

People named Breach:

• Nicholas Breach, a photographer

Places named Breach in United Kingdom:

• Breach, Kent

In law:

• Breach of confidence, a common law tort that protects private information that is conveyed in confidence
• Breach of contract, a situation in which a binding agreement is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract
• Breach of promise, a former tort
• Breach of the peace, a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries
• Efficient breach, a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable
• Fundamental breach, a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract

In science and technology:

• Breaching, a whale's leap out of the water
• Breach birth
• Door breaching, a series of techniques used to open locked doors
• Breaching experiment, a social experiment that tests people's reactions to the violation of accepted social norms

In entertainment:

• "The Breach" (Enterprise episode), a second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• Warp core breach, a catastrophic event aboard a starship in the Star Trek fictional universe
• (Breach), a 2000 album by The Wallflowers
• Breach (comics), a 2005 comic book series from DC Comics
• Breach (film), a 2007 film directed by Billy Ray starring Chris Cooper about Robert Hanssen.
• Breach (band), a Swedish hardcore punk band

See also

• Breech

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