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An accident in which a train runs off its track
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derailment
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ In psychiatry , derailment (also loosening of association , asyndesis , asyndetic thinking , knight's move thinking , or entgleisen ) is a thought disorder characterized by discourse consisting of a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, from French déraillement , from dérailler "to go off the rails" (see derail ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Derailment \De*rail"ment\, n. The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an accident in which a train runs off its track
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context rail transport English) The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs 2 (context psychiatry English) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
Usage examples of derailment.
Smith called up incoming reports on the derailment he had just survived, downloading them into his ongoing Amtrak file.
The earliest reports simply attributed the derailment to excessive speed.
The TV was on, showing coverage of the derailment less than a mile away.
But the others landed in soft soil gouged by the derailment and they made it okay.
No one knew when it would end, because as long as man set hurtling engines on ribbons of steel rail, derailments were inevitable.
I got more of these fandangled derailments these last two, three years than I care to count.
The train crashes and derailments over the past three years were almost evenly divided between the Amtrak passenger system and the various long-haul and short-line freight railroads.
Recall that these derailments have been commonplace for three years now.
America new crashes, derailments and rail accidents were being reported, Smith input these new destinations into his exploding data base.
On the left were the spirits of generations past who had showed up too early to enjoy the benefits of nanotechnology and (not explicitly shown, but somewhat ghoulishly implied) croaked from obsolete causes such as cancer, scurvy, boiler explosions, derailments, drive-by shootings, pogroms, blitzkriegs, mine shaft collapses, ethnic cleansing, meltdowns, running with scissors, eating Drano, heating a cold house with charcoal briquets, and being gored by oxen.
Snowdrifts blocking roads have isolated villages in many remote areas, and British Rail is fighting numerous electrical failures and minor derailments caused by the snow.
Grand Central’s already patched, in fact: the derailments never happened, the tracks are clean.
Panesa had interviewed women who lovingly seasoned home cooking with arsenic, and he had covered car wrecks, plane crashes, train derailments, skydiving gone bad, scuba diving gone worse, bungee jumping by drunks who forgot the cord, and fires, and drownings.
Along the way Tom encounters mechanical failures, derailments, and eccentric characters like Agnes Joe, who rides trains all the time, though no one knows why.
The Environmental Protection Agency, among many other government agencies, had rushed investigators to the nightmarish scene with orders to search for the cause of the train's derailment.