passing loop
Railways
noun
An extra section of track added to a single line so that two trains may pass one another.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Economic Geography.
- absorptiometric
- absorptiometrically
- absorptiometry
- absorption
- absorption band
- absorption center
- absorption centre
- absorption coefficient
- absorption costing
- absorption factor
- absorption line
- absorption nebula
- absorption spectrum
- absorptive
- absorptiveness
- absorptivity
- absotively
- absquatulate
- absquatulation
- abstain
- abstainer
- abstainment
- abstemious
- abstemiously
- abstemiousness