Define monsoons. What do you understand by “break” in monsoon

Define monsoons. What do you understand by “break” in monsoon? 

Answer: The seasonal reversal in wind direction during a year is called monsoon. 

Monsoon tends to have ‘breaks’ in rainfall; which means that there are wet and dry spells in between. 

The monsoon rains take place only for a few days at a time and then come the rainless intervals.