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Departures

The act of departing or something that has departed.

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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.

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exitnounAn act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
releasenoun(software) The distribution, either public or private, of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product.
expirationnounAn act, process, or instance of expiring.
lossnoun(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
deviationnounA departure from the correct way of acting.
going away(idiomatic, by extension) Readily, handily, unmistakably.
divergencenounThe state or degree of being divergent: of diverging.
passingnounThe fact of going past; a movement from one place to another or a change from one state to another.
goingnounProgress.
differencenoun(uncountable) The quality of being different.
leavingverba 2009 French film directed by Catherine Corsini, written by Corsini and Gaeelle Mace, and starring Sergi López, Kristin Scott Thomas and Yvan Attal.
abandonmentsnounThe act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
aberrationsnounThe act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
abnormalitiesnounSomething abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
amendmentsnoun(especially US) An addition to and/or alteration to the Constitution.
anomaliesnounA deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
anomalynounA deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
appointmentnounAn arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
appointmentsnounAn arrangement between people to meet; an engagement.
beginningsnounbeginning

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