·noun A separation; a leave-taking.
III. Parting ·v Admitting of being parted; partible.
IV. Parting ·noun A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
V. Parting ·v Serving to part; dividing; separating.
VI. Parting ·noun The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
VII. Parting ·p.pr. &
·vb.n. of
Part.
VIII. Parting ·noun A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.
IX. Parting ·v Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.
X. Parting ·noun The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
XI. Parting ·noun The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.
XII. Parting ·noun The separation and determination of alloys; ·esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
XIII. Parting ·noun Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.