Associations to the word «Departure»

Wiktionary

DEPARTURE, noun. The act of departing or something that has departed.
DEPARTURE, noun. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
DEPARTURE, noun. (euphemism) A death.
DEPARTURE, noun. (navigation) 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.
DEPARTURE, noun. (legal) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
DEPARTURE, noun. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
DEPARTURE LOUNGE, noun. A waiting room at an airport for those who are due to depart on a flight.

Dictionary definition

DEPARTURE, noun. The act of departing.
DEPARTURE, noun. A variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean".
DEPARTURE, noun. Euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King