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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats