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de·par·ture       [di-pahr-cher] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.an act or instance of departing: the time of departure; a hasty departure.
2.divergence or deviation, as from a standard, rule, etc.: a departure from accepted teaching methods.
3.Navigation.
a.the distance due east or west traveled by a vessel or aircraft.
b.point of departure.
4.Surveying. the length of the projection, on the east-west reference line, of a survey line.
5.Archaic. death.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < OF departëure; cf. AF departir (n. use of inf.). See depart, -ure]

—Synonyms 1. leaving, going, exit, leave-taking.
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de·par·ture       (dĭ-pär'chər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. The act of leaving.
  2. A starting out, as on a trip or a new course of action.
  3. A divergence or deviation, as from an established rule, plan, or procedure: ordered curry as a departure from his usual bland diet.
  4. Nautical The distance sailed due east or west by a ship on its course.

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departure

noun
1. the act of departing 
2. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation] 
3. euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing] 

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Departure

De*par"ture\ (?; 135), n. [From Depart.]

1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.]

No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. --Milton.

2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

Departure from this happy place. --Milton.

3. Removal from the present life; death; decease.

The time of my departure is at hand. --2 Tim. iv. 6.

His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. --Sir P. Sidney.

4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.

Any departure from a national standard. --Prescott.

5. (Law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. --Bouvier.

6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course.

To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.

Syn: Death; demise; release. See Death.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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