PARTING
parting
Noun
- The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
- A farewell, the act of departing politely.
- The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US)
- The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
- The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
- A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
- The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
- Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
Verb
parting
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