meaning of parting
1. Serving to part; dividing; separating.
2. Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.
3. Departing.
4. Admitting of being parted; partible.
5. The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
6. A separation; a leave-taking.
7. A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
8. The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
9. The separation and determination of alloys; esp. , the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
10. A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
11. The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
12. Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
13. of Part
14. the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet
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