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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of derailing, or causing to leave the rails, as a railroad-train or -car.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of going off, or the state of being off, the rails of a railroad.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun rail transport The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs
  • noun psychiatry A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an accident in which a train runs off its track

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