Definition of departure
- n. - Division; separation; putting away.
- n. - Separation or removal from a place; the act or process
of departing or going away.
- n. - Removal from the present life; death; decease.
- n. - Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course
of action, a plan, or a purpose.
- n. - The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground
taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of
another.
- n. - The distance due east or west which a person or ship
passes over in going along an oblique line.