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departure
UK /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/ US /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/
noun 5
Definitions
noun
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
A deviation from a plan or procedure.
any departure from a national standard
There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
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
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.
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