Departure /(?; 135)/

De·par·ture

Departure

n.
  1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.]
    No other remedy . . . but absolute departure.
  2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
    Departure from this happy place.
  3. Removal from the present life; death; decease.
    The time of my departure is at hand.
    — 2 Tim. iv. 6.
    His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
  4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
    Any departure from a national standard.
  5. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. (Law)
  6. The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. (Nav. & Surv.)

Phrases & Compounds
To take a departure
to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.