• Alighting

    Verb

    1. Present participle of alight

    Full definition of alighting

    Noun

    alighting

    (plural alightings)
    1. The act of one who alights.
      • 1994, Leslie Real, Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology (page 287)We compared the frequencies of alightings on hosts with those predicted from random transect data.
      • 2000, Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring (page 24)Load profiles are a standard analysis tool showing passenger activity (boardings, alightings) and passenger load at each stop along a route in a single direction.
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