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Definition of Disengaging
1. a. Loosing; setting free; detaching.
Definition of Disengaging
1. Verb. (present participle of disengage) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disengaging
1. disengage [v] - See also: disengage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disengaging
Literary usage of Disengaging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Mechanics of Engineering and of the Construction of Machines by Julius Ludwig Weisbach (1890)
"Engaging and disengaging gear is used to set a machine or any part of it ...
It follows from this that every engaging gear is also suitable for disengaging. ..."
2. Treatise on Mills and Millwork by William Fairbairn (1871)
"It used to be customary in cotton and silk mills to place disengaging clutches
at the point of connection of the upright or driving shaft and the main ..."
3. Treatise on Mills and Millwork by William Fairbairn (1865)
"disengaging and re-engaging Gear. This is an important branch of ... It used to
be customary in cotton and silk mills to place disengaging clutches at the ..."
4. A Manual of Machinery and Millwork by William John Macquorn Rankine (1893)
"•SECTION I.—Of Engaging, disengaging, ... and disengaging-Gear, or sometimes
disengaging and Re-engaging-Goar, is the name given to those contrivances by ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"On the disengaging of Boat*, $-c. By EJ HILL. After having considerable experience
of this appliance the author in 1870 designed a simpler form, ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... of the superior gods, and, by disengaging the soul from her material bands,
to reunite that immortal particle with the Infinite and Divine Spirit. ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"... particularly in cases of sufficient standing for partial impaction to have
taken place. The taxis being premised with a view of disengaging ..."
8. The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist: Being a Practical Display of by John Nicholson (1826)
"OF disengaging AND REENGAGING MACHINERY. Matter possesses a certain property
termed inertia, which has a tendency to maintain it in the state in which it ..."
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