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Departure

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of departing or something that has departed. countable, uncountable

    "The departure was scheduled for noon."

  2. 2
    the act of departing wordnet
  3. 3
    A deviation from a plan or procedure. countable, uncountable

    "any departure from a national standard"

  4. 4
    euphemistic expressions for death wordnet
  5. 5
    A death. countable, euphemistic, uncountable

    "The time of my departure is at hand."

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  1. 6
    a variation that deviates from the standard or norm wordnet
  2. 7
    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. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve. countable, uncountable

    "The area is computed by latitudes and departures."

  4. 9
    The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    Division; separation; putting away. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "no other remedy […] but absolute departure"

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). By surface analysis, depart + -ure.

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