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departure

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Etymology

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FromOld Frenchdeporteure(departure; figuratively, death). Bysurface analysis,depart +‎-ure.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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departure (countable anduncountable,pluraldepartures)

  1. The act ofdeparting or something that hasdeparted.
    Thedeparture was scheduled for noon.
    • 1921,Ben Travers, chapter 5, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
      Thedeparture 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.”
    • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, inTrains Illustrated, page590:
      But the outstanding feature of the new timetable arrangement, additional to the standardiseddeparture times, is the number of intermediate points, in addition to such principal cities as Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff and Birmingham, that now havedepartures for Paddington at the same minutes past the hour throughout the day.
    • 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, inBBC Sport:
      Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill'sdeparture.
  2. Adeviation from aplan orprocedure.
    There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
  3. (euphemistic) Adeath.
  4. (navigation) Thedistance due east or west made by aship in itscourse reckoned inplane sailing as theproduct of the distance sailed and thesine of the angle made by the course with themeridian.
  5. (surveying) Thedifference ineasting between the twoends of aline orcurve.
    The area is computed bylatitudes anddepartures.
  6. (law) Thedesertion by aparty to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his lastantecedent pleading, and the adoption of another[1]
  7. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

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Translations

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the act of departing
deviation from a plan or procedure
death
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References

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  1. ^John Bouvier (1839), “DEPARTURE”, inA Law Dictionary, [], volumesI (A–K), Philadelphia, Pa.: T. & J. W. Johnson, [], successors to Nicklin & Johnson, [],→OCLC.

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