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What does breakthrough mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word breakthrough? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.
Noun
  1. (military) An advance through and past enemy lines.
  2. Any major progress; such as a great innovation or discovery that overcomes a significant obstacle.
  3. (sports) The penetration of the opposition defence
  4. (construction) The penetration of a separating wall or the remaining distance to an adjacent hollow (a crosscut in mining) or between two parts of a tunnel build from both ends; knockthrough.
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