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departure | a |

As a noun departure

is the act of departing or something that has departed.

As a letter a is

the letter a with a tilde.

departure

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of departing or something that has departed.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=5 citation , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure .}}
  • A deviation from a plan or procedure.
  • * Prescott
  • any departure from a national standard
  • (euphemism) A death.
  • * Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6
  • The time of my departure is at hand.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • His timely departure barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • (Bouvier)
  • (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
  • * Milton
  • no other remedy but absolute departure

    Synonyms

    * leaving

    Antonyms

    * arrival

    Anagrams

    *

    a

    Translingual

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) letter .

    Letter

  • The first letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script) *

    Symbol

    (head)
  • (Marks the first item in a list)
  • A . Go to the store. B. Get some food. C. Return home. D. Eat.
  • A hypothetical item or person designated first when there are more than one.
  • Person A had 5 apples, and person B...
  • The hexadecimal digit for 10
  • 0x0000000A
    The value is hexadecimal A 0, or decimal 160.
  • A standard size of dry cell battery slightly larger than a AA battery.
  • A system of paper sizes with similar proportions, as , etc.
  • See also
    * (previous) , (next) B

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of various terms.

    Symbol

    (head)
  • Symbol for the element Argon (Since 1956 has been changed to Ar).
  • area
  • Abbreviation

    (Abbreviation) (head)
  • ampere, a unit of electrical current.
  • IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for adenine in genetic code.
  • IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for alanine in proteins.
  • Austria
  • See also

    {{Letter, page=A , NATO=Alpha , Morse=·– , Character=A1 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin A.png, Capital and lowercase versions of A , in normal and italic type File:Fraktur letter A.png, Uppercase and lowercase A in Fraktur File:UncialA-01.svg, A in uncial script

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