departing

departing

1. present participle of depart

departing

1. that is leaving

   a departing train

2. while leaving

   departing words

departing (plural departings)

1. The act by which somebody or something departs.
   • 2011, Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology, page 168:

     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.

• pentagrid, petarding, pre-dating, predating