ALL meanings of departure
de·par·ture
D d - variable noun departure Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere. 3
- variable noun departure The departure of a person from a job, or a member from an organization, is their act of leaving it or being forced to leave it. 3
- countable noun departure If someone does something different or unusual, you can refer to their action as a departure. 3
- noun departure the act or an instance of departing 3
- noun departure a deviation or variation from previous custom; divergence 3
- noun departure a project, course of action, venture, etc 3
- noun departure the net distance travelled due east or west by a vessel 3
- noun departure the latitude and longitude of the point from which a vessel calculates dead reckoning 3
- noun departure a departing, or going away 3
- noun departure a starting out, as on a trip or new course of action 3
- noun departure a deviation or turning aside (from) 3
- abbreviation DEPARTURE death 3
- noun departure the distance due east or west from the meridian of its starting point covered by a ship on a given course 3
- noun departure The action of leaving, typically to start a journey. 1
- noun departure an act or instance of departing: the time of departure; a hasty departure. 1
- noun departure divergence or deviation, as from a standard, rule, etc.: a departure from accepted teaching methods. 1
- noun departure Navigation. the distance due east or west traveled by a vessel or aircraft. point of departure. 1
- noun departure Surveying. the length of the projection, on the east-west reference line, of a survey line. 1
- noun departure Archaic. death. 1
- noun departure leaving 1
- noun departure from norm 1
- noun departure time 1
- noun departure The act of departing or something that has departed. 0
- noun departure A deviation from a plan or procedure. 0
- noun departure (euphemistic) A death. 0
- noun departure (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. 0
- noun departure (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. 0
- noun departure (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Division; separation; putting away. 0