departure

Plural

departures

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.

   • 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.

4. 4.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.

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