Derailment
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The act of derailing, or causing to leave the rails, as a railroad-train or -car.
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.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
The action of a
locomotive
or
train
leaving the
rails
along which it runs
noun.
A
pattern
of
discourse
(in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.
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noun.
an accident in which a train runs off its track
Word Usage
"I apologize for my part in derailment, I kinda hoped there's a segue from controlled pathways to ultraconservation of non-coding DNA."
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
misadventure
mischance
mishap
Rhyme
Words with the same terminal sound
ailment
curtailment
Same Context
Words that are found in similar contexts
'puter
counterstroke
downregulation
equalize
genuflexion