departure

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of departing or something that has departed.

   • The departure was scheduled for noon.
   • The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
2. 2

   A deviation from a plan or procedure.

   • any departure from a national standard
   • There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
3. 3

   A death.

   • The time of my departure is at hand.
   • His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
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   1. 4

      The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as…

      The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.

   2. 5

      The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

      • The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
   3. 6

      The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last…

      The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another

   4. 7

      Division

      Division; separation; putting away.

      • no other remedy […] but absolute departure

The neighborhood

• synonymleaving
• synonymexit
• antonymarrival
• neighbordepart