alighting

English

Verb

alighting

1. present participle of alight

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.