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Definition of Departures
1. departure [n] - See also: departure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Departures
Literary usage of Departures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences by New York Academy of Sciences (1915)
"!»1 departures of temperature averages for March, 1903,-February, 1904 91 departures
of temperature averages for April, 1903,-March, 1904 91 departures of ..."
2. Plane Surveying: A Text-book and Pocket Manual by John Clayton Tracy (1907)
"Latitudes and departures are used in plotting maps (see Chapter XL1); ...
Algebraic Signs of Latitudes and departures are determined by the quadrants of ..."
3. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie, Cady Staley (1897)
"By Latitudes and departures. When a single line, such as AB, ... The sum of the
latitudes will be equal to AX, and that of the departures to FIG. 262. XZ. ..."
4. History of California by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1890)
"departures.1 The disorders of 1877 proved detrimental, but with the opening of
the present decade the expanding resources of the state, ..."
5. A Manual of Topographical Drawing by Richard Somers Smith (1885)
"2°, Platting by Latitudes and departures.—These may be employed directly, by
constructing at the extremity of each course, taken in regular order, ..."
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