alighting

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of alight

noun

  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
    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

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