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departure
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departure
Noun
  • 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
  • Division; separation; putting away. obsolete