toppling

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of topple

plural topplings

1. The act by which something is toppled.

   And in “Central Park in the Dark” and her haunting response to “The Unanswered Question,” Sokolow evokes more small-town anomie in spare shifts of ranks, topplings and rises.

   2008 April 22, Jennifer Dunning, “Works Not New, but Right for the Time”, in New York Times

comparative more toppling · superlative most toppling

1. That which topples.

   We analyzed data from continuous ambient vibration monitoring and concomitant crack aperture measurements at the Courthouse Mesa instability, a large toppling sandstone slab in Utah, USA.

   2024 June 27, Erin K. Jensen, Jeffrey Moore, et al, “Combined ambient vibration and surface displacement measurements for improved progressive failure monitoring at a toppling rock slab in Utah, USA”, in Frontiers Magazine