departures

Noun

departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.
   • The departure was scheduled for noon.
2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
   • any departure from a national standard1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC
3. (euphemistic) A death.
   • The time of my departure is at hand.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:6
4. (navigation) 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.
5. The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
   • The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
6. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another

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