Meaning of departure in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• The act of departing or something that has departed.

  Example: The departure was scheduled for noon.

• A deviation from a plan or procedure.

  Example: There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.

• A death.

• 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.

• The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

  Example: The area is computed by latitudes and departures.

• The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

• Division; separation; putting away.