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present participle and gerund of depart examples
that is leaving examples
while leaving examples
plural departings
The act by which somebody or something departs. quotations examples
But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168