adjournment vs break-off

adjournment

noun
  • The state of being adjourned, or action of adjourning. 

  • Ampliatio. 

break-off

noun
  • A break, discontinuance, or interruption 

  • That which breaks off, or is broken off 

  • The first shot in a game of snooker or other cue-game 

verb
  • To play the first shot in a game of snooker 

How often have the words adjournment and break-off occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )