The difference between Departure and Difference
When used as nouns, departure means the act of departing or something that has departed, whereas difference means the quality of being different.
Difference is also verb with the meaning: to distinguish or differentiate.
check bellow for the other definitions of Departure and Difference
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Departure as a noun:
The act of departing or something that has departed.
Examples:
"The departure was scheduled for noon."
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Departure as a noun:
A deviation from a plan or procedure.
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Departure as a noun (euphemism):
A death.
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Departure as a noun (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.
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Departure as a noun (surveying):
The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
Examples:
"The area is computed by [[latitude]]s and departures."
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Departure as a noun (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.
Examples:
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Departure as a noun (obsolete):
Division; separation; putting away.
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Difference as a noun (uncountable):
The quality of being different.
Examples:
"You need to learn to be more tolerant of difference."
"ant identity sameness"
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Difference as a noun (countable):
A characteristic of something that makes it different from something else.
Examples:
"There are three differences between these two pictures."
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Difference as a noun (countable):
A disagreement or argument.
Examples:
"We have our little differences, but we are firm friends."
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Difference as a noun (countable, uncountable):
Significant change in or effect on a situation or state.
Examples:
"It just won't make much difference to me."
"It just won't make much of a difference to anyone."
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Difference as a noun (countable):
The result of a subtraction; sometimes the absolute value of this result.
Examples:
"The difference between 3 and 21 is 18."
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Difference as a noun (obsolete):
Choice; preference.
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Difference as a noun (heraldry):
An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish two people's bearings which would otherwise be the same. See and .
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Difference as a noun (logic):
The quality or attribute which is added to those of the genus to constitute a species; a differentia.
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Difference as a noun (logic circuits):
A Boolean operation which is TRUE when the two input variables are different but is otherwise FALSE; the XOR operation (\scriptstyle A \overline B + \overline A B).
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Difference as a noun (relational algebra):
the set of elements that are in one set but not another (\scriptstyle A \overline B).
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Difference as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To distinguish or differentiate.
Examples:
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