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departure.

The act of departing or something that has departed.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/UK/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/UK
  1. The act of departing or something that has departed.

    countable · uncountable
    The departure was scheduled for noon.
  2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.

    countable · uncountable
  3. A death.

    countable · euphemistic · uncountable
  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.

    countable · uncountable
  5. The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

    countable · uncountable
    The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
  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

    countable · uncountable
  7. Division; separation; putting away.

    countable · obsolete · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). By surface analysis, depart + -ure.

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