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@teacherbuknoy@masto.aiThe word "breakpoint" has probably lost its meaning in #WebDevelopment and #CSS. Nowadays, most people think breakpoints are the standard sizes of different devices (desktop, tablet, phone, etc.) But the reality is there is no standard for device widths.
Breakpoints really are the *points* in which your layout *breaks* and you have to adjust it. It's okay to not follow the media queries used by Bootstrap that you got used to if your layout breaks at widths different from the commonly-used ones.
@teacherbuknoy I've also heard it used to mean a layout. As in, folks at a previous job would refer to "the wide breakpoint" or "the narrow breakpoint", which seemed like just a weird-but-harmless misuse of a word... until we needed to refer to _the boundary between layouts_.
I.e., until we needed to refer to what "breakpoint" *actually* means, but now we couldn't because we'd been misusing the word all that time.
Words have meaning. They shouldn't be abused.