noun

• The act of departing or something that has departed.
• A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• (euphemistic) A death.
• (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.
• (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
• (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
• (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.