Meaning

To disembark from a train..

Definitions by Sense

1. To disembark from a train.
2. To precipitate out of a flowing current.
3. To disrupt an organism's circadian rhythm so that it is not aligned with its environment.
4. (more generally) To disrupt a body's homeostatic patterns.
5. (neurobiology) To extinguish a conditioned association.

Example Sentences

French trains of all kinds travelled faster than German ones, this being made possible - in the case of troop transports - by an arrangement which required the men to take their provisions along, instead of having them disentrain in order to be fed at the stations.

North American continent; one could not cross the country on the same passenger railroad, but had to disentrain and wait for a connection.

I saw one Division disentrain at a station on Lines of Communication and begin a march to its camp, a distance of about ten miles.

In certain cases, it is possible to entrain enough of the solids continually in the effluent gas stream and then to disentrain them again away from the bed.

It is better to use the receiving silo or an oversized cyclone to disentrain the solid from the air.

Subsequent disentrainment relies upon opportunities for gravity separation that occur in the normal course of processing, but particles which disentrain too slowly and can not be filtered remain in suspension to the possible detriment of product quality.

Huisman and Hulot (2005) suggested that at Pe > 10 Microcystis will completely disentrain from the turbulence and can then form surface blooms.

Since different rhythms appear to have different ranges of entrainment, what happens is that as the period of the light-dark cycle is stretched, rhythms disentrain, but not all at once.

Word Forms

• disentrains
• disentraining
• disentrained

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