∙ The act of departing or something that has departed.
∙ A deviation from a plan or procedure.
∙ A death. euphemistic
∙ 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. navigation
∙ The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. law