# departure

Pronunciation: US say "di-PAHR-chur" /dɪˈpɑɹt͡ʃɚ/; UK say "di-PAR-chuh" /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/

## Noun

1. The act of going away from a place, or a person or thing that has left.
   - Simple: The act of leaving a place, or the moment of going away.
   - _The flight's departure was pushed back due to heavy fog over the runway._
   - _His sudden departure from the company surprised everyone on the team._
2. A deviation from an established plan, procedure, or accepted way of doing things.
   - Simple: A move away from the usual plan or way of doing something.
   - _The architect's design was a bold departure from traditional building styles._
   - _Critics saw the film as a striking departure from the director's earlier work._
3. A person's death, spoken of in a gentle or indirect way.
   - Simple: A gentle way of saying that someone has died.
   - _His peaceful departure after ninety years was mourned across the parish._
   - _The poem reflects on a beloved friend's departure and the grief left behind._
4. In plane sailing, the distance a ship has made due east or west, found by multiplying the distance sailed by the sine of the course angle from the meridian.
   - Simple: In sailing, how far east or west a ship has moved from its starting line.
   - _The mate computed the day's departure to update their longitude estimate._
   - _In plane sailing, the departure combines with the difference in latitude to give the course made good._
5. In surveying, the difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve: its east–west component.
   - Simple: In surveying, how far east or west one end of a line sits from the other.
   - _The crew calculated the departure and latitude for every leg of the traverse._
   - _Closing errors appear when the sum of the departures around a loop fails to reach zero._
6. In legal pleading, the abandonment by a party of the ground taken in his last pleading and the adoption of a different one.
   - Simple: In law, when someone in a court case drops their earlier argument and uses a new one.
   - _Opposing counsel objected that the new argument amounted to an improper departure._
   - _The court struck the reply as a departure from the cause of action stated in the complaint._

## Noun

7. The act of dividing, separating, or putting away. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The act of separating or dividing things, or putting them apart.

## Origin

From Old French deporteure ("departure," and figuratively "death"). By surface analysis, it breaks down into depart plus the suffix -ure.

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