departure

/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/noun
Middle School
1

The act of departing or something that has departed.

2

A deviation from a plan or procedure.

3

A death.

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

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

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

Division; separation; putting away.

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