'Departure' definitions:
Definition of 'departure'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
A variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference]
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Definition of 'Departure'
From: GCIDE
- Departure \De*par"ture\ (?; 135), n. [From Depart.]
- 1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. [1913 Webster]
- Departure from this happy place. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Removal from the present life; death; decease. [1913 Webster]
- The time of my departure is at hand. --2 Tim. iv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. [1913 Webster]
- Any departure from a national standard. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (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. --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course. [1913 Webster]
- To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.
- Syn: Death; demise; release. See Death. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'departure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abscondence,
- absence,
- absence without leave,
- absentation,
- absenteeism,
- absenting,
- annihilation,
- AWOL,
- bane,
- bend,
- bias,
- biological death,
- blackout,
- blocking,
- branching off,
- bypath,
- byway,
- cessation of life,
- circuitousness,
- clinical death,
- contrariety,
- contrast,
- corner,
- crook,
- crossing the bar,
- curtains,
- curve,
- cut,
- day off,
- death,
- death knell,
- debt of nature,
- decampment,
- decease,
- declination,
- default,
- deflection,
- dematerialization,
- demise,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- difference,
- digression,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disappearance,
- disappearing,
- disconformity,
- discongruity,
- discordance,
- discrepancy,
- discreteness,
- discursion,
- disparity,
- dispersion,
- dissent,
- dissimilarity,
- dissipation,
- dissolution,
- dissolving,
- dissonance,
- distinction,
- distinctness,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversion,
- diversity,
- dogleg,
- doom,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- dying,
- ebb of life,
- eclipse,
- egress,
- egression,
- elimination,
- end,
- end of life,
- ending,
- episode,
- erasure,
- errantry,
- escape,
- eternal rest,
- evanescence,
- evaporation,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- excused absence,
- exit,
- exodus,
- exorbitation,
- expiration,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extraction,
- fadeaway,
- fadeout,
- fading,
- far cry,
- farewell,
- final summons,
- finger of death,
- fleeing,
- flight,
- forthcoming,
- French leave,
- furlough,
- going,
- going off,
- going out,
- grave,
- hairpin,
- hand of death,
- heterogeneity,
- holiday,
- hooky,
- inaccordance,
- incompatibility,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- indirection,
- inequality,
- inharmoniousness,
- inharmony,
- irreconcilability,
- jaws of death,
- knell,
- last debt,
- last muster,
- last rest,
- last roundup,
- last sleep,
- leave,
- leave of absence,
- leave-taking,
- leaving,
- leaving life,
- loss of life,
- making an end,
- melting,
- mixture,
- nonappearance,
- nonattendance,
- nonconformity,
- obliquity,
- occultation,
- odds,
- opposition,
- otherness,
- outcome,
- outcoming,
- outgo,
- outgoing,
- parting,
- passing,
- passing away,
- passing over,
- pererration,
- perishing,
- quietus,
- rambling,
- release,
- rest,
- retreat,
- reward,
- running away,
- sabbatical leave,
- sentence of death,
- separateness,
- shades of death,
- shadow of death,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- sick leave,
- side path,
- side road,
- sidetrack,
- skew,
- slant,
- sleep,
- somatic death,
- straying,
- summons of death,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- truancy,
- truantism,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- unconformity,
- unexcused absence,
- unlikeness,
- unorthodoxy,
- vacation,
- vanishing,
- vanishing point,
- variance,
- variation,
- variegation,
- variety,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- wipe,
- withdrawal,
- yaw,
- zigzag