Usually means: Loss of coherent thought flow.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word derailment:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. derailment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. derailment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. derailment: Collins English Dictionary
  4. derailment: Vocabulary.com
  5. Derailment, derailment: Wordnik
  6. derailment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. derailment: Wiktionary
  8. derailment: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Derailment, derailment: Dictionary.com
  10. Derailment (thought disorder), Derailment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Derailment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. derailment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. derailment: Rhymezone
  14. Derailment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. derailment: Free Dictionary
  16. derailment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. derailment: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derailment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. derailment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  4. derailment: Medical dictionary

(Note: See derail as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (derailment)

noun:  (rail transport) The action of a locomotive or train leaving the rails along which it runs.
noun:  An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.
noun:  An instance of thwarting or frustrating something.
noun:  (psychiatry) A pattern of discourse (in speech or writing) that is a sequence of unrelated or only remotely related ideas.

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