alighting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of alight

plural alightings

1. The act of one who alights.

   We compared the frequencies of alightings on hosts with those predicted from random transect data.

   1994, Leslie Real, Behavioral Mechanisms in Evolutionary Ecology, page 287

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   The Eagles are a dangerous 'machine'. I have used them sparingly, and that is the absolute limit of their credibility or usefulness. The alighting of a Great Eagle of the Misty Mountains in the Shire is absurd; it also makes the later capture of G. by Saruman incredible, and spoils the account of his escape.

   1958 June 28, J. R. R. Tolkien, From a letter to Forrest J. Ackerman (#210)

   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.

   2000, Peter Gregory Furth, Data Analysis for Bus Planning and Monitoring, page 24