noun. The act of leaving.

noun. A starting out, as on a trip or a new course of action.

noun. A divergence or deviation, as from an established rule, plan, or procedure.

noun. The distance sailed due east or west by a ship on its course.

noun. The act of separating or parting; separation.

noun. The act of going away; a moving from a place: as, his departure from home.

noun. The act of leaving the present life; decease; death.

noun. Deviation or divergence, as from a standard, rule, or plan; a turning away, as from a purpose or course of action.

noun. In navigation: The distance in nautical miles made good by a ship due east or due west: in the former case it is called easting, and in the latter, westing. When the two places are on the same parallel, the departure is the same as the distance sailed

noun. The bearing or position of an object from which a vessel commences her dead-reckoning.

noun. In law, the abandonment of one's former ground, in pleading or process, which is implied by interposing a pleading stating as the grounds of action or defense matter inconsistent with or substantially different from that originally indicated; the change involved or attempted after beginning an action or a defense on one ground, in endeavoring to continue it on one substantially different.

noun. Division; separation; putting away.

noun. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.

noun. Removal from the present life; death; decease.

noun. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.

noun. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

noun. The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

noun. 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.

noun. the act of departing or something that has departed

noun. a deviation from a plan or procedure

noun. a death

noun. the distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian

noun. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

noun. the act of departing

noun. euphemistic expressions for death

"I would only hope that his departure is a result of some criminal charge a la the NSA-objecting Qwest executive."

arrival  

angle of departure  death  departure of an imaginary quantity  deviation  difference  

depart  departure lounge  departure tax  

death  decease  expiry  

Archer  archer  marcher  starcher  

absence  advance  approach  arrival  attention  

AWOL  French leave  aberrancy  aberration  abscondence