·noun Division; separation; putting away.
II. Departure ·noun Removal from the present life; death; decease.
III. Departure ·noun Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
IV. Departure ·noun Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
V. Departure ·noun The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
VI. Departure ·noun The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.