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.