Definition of departure

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Departure (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

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Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..
Modus :: Modus (n.) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like..
Ab- :: Ab- () A prefix in many words of Latin origin. It signifies from, away , separating, or departure, as in abduct, abstract, abscond. See A-(6)..
Easting :: Easting (n.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.
Westing :: Westing (n.) The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north..
Total :: Total (a.) Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss..
Time-table :: Time-table (n.) A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc..
Transitoriness :: Transitoriness (n.) The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.
Embargo :: Embargo (n.) An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Falsehood :: Falsehood (n.) A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie.
Decampment :: Decampment (n.) Departure from a camp; a marching off.
Departure :: Departure (n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
Decease :: Decease (n.) Departure, especially departure from this life; death..
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..
Going :: Going (n.) Departure.
Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To give leave (of departure) to.
Variation :: Variation (n.) Extent to which a thing varies; amount of departure from a position or state; amount or rate of change.
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, or the like, away from a rectlinear line..
Exodus :: Exodus (n.) The second of the Old Testament, which contains the narrative of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt..
Departure :: Departure (n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
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