| departure | |
| 1. n. The act of departing or something that has departed. | |
| The departure was scheduled for noon. | |
| 2. n. A deviation from a plan or procedure. | |
| 3. n. (euphemism) A death. | |
| 4. n. (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. n. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve. | |
| The area is computed by latitudes and departures. | |
| 6. n. (legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away. | |
