departure

noun

1. 1

   The act of departing or something that has departed.

   “The departure was scheduled for noon.”

2. 2

   A deviation from a plan or procedure.

   “There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.”

3. 3

   A death.

4. 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. 5

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

   “The area is computed by latitudes and departures.”

6. 6

   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. 7

   Division; separation; putting away.