English Online Dictionary. What means departure? What does departure mean?
English
Etymology
From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/, /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Noun
departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)
- The act of departing or something that has departed.
- A deviation from a plan or procedure.
- There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
- (euphemistic) A death.
- (navigation) 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.
- (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
- (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
- (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
Synonyms
- leaving
Antonyms
- arrival
Derived terms
Related terms
- depart
Translations
References
- “departure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading
- departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- apertured