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CP violation comparison table

Subject	break	is a kind of	has definition
symmetry breaking		mathematical concept	In cosmology and particle physics, a state in which traces of an earlier symmetry may be discerned. A broken symmetry condition differs from chaos in that its parts can in theory be united in a symmetrical whole, like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
CP violation	CPT invariance	symmetry breaking	A reaction between subatomic particles is said to be a "CP violating" reaction if the reaction produces a different result when the electrical charges of the particles are changed to their opposites and the mirror image of the particle trajectories is used.

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