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

Noun

(en noun)

Physical motion between points in space.

I saw a movement in that grass on the hill.

(engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion, such as the wheelwork of a watch.

The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.

A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals

The labor movement has been struggling in America since the passage of the Taft-Hartley act in 1947.

(music) A large division of a larger composition.

(aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.

Albuquerque International Sunport serviced over 200,000 movements last year.

(baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.

The movement on his cutter was devastating.

An act of emptying the bowels.

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(obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.