noun🔗ShareThe act of departing or something that has departed."The departure was scheduled for noon."actionplacevehicletrafficChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA deviation from a plan or procedure."There are several significant departures, however, from current practice."planactionprocessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareA death."The teacher announced the departures of several students this week due to illness. "eventfamilysocietyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe 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."The navigator calculated the ship's departures daily to track its eastward or westward progress relative to its starting longitude, using the distance traveled and the angle of its course. "nauticalsailingmathChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve."The area is computed by latitudes and departures."technicalmathgeographyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another."The lawyer argued the contract was breached due to late deliveries, but then introduced claims about product defects, constituting impermissible departures from the original pleading. "lawpoliticsChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareDivision; separation; putting away."The latest departures from company policy resulted in several employees being reprimanded. "actionwayprocessChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading