Definition of parting

• p. pr. & vb. n. - of Part
• v. - Serving to part; dividing; separating.
• v. - Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.
• v. - Departing.
• v. - Admitting of being parted; partible.
• n. - The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
• n. - A separation; a leave-taking.
• n. - A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
• n. - The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
• n. - The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
• n. - A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
• n. - The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
• n. - Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.