Definition of "detaching" [detaching]

• Present participle of detach. (verb)

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• "To date, American Suzuki has received two reports of flame arrester screens detaching from the mounting ring."
• "He does not see the shadows detaching from the alleyway, or how they steal close to him."
• "And yet, by means of the particles charged with energy of the radioactive elements, particles which act as projectiles, he succeeded in detaching small fragments from certain nuclei."