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The act of departing or something that has departed.
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The departure was scheduled for noon.
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A deviation from a plan or procedure.
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There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
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A death.
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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.
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The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
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The area is computed by latitudes and departures.
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The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
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Division; separation; putting away.