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The formal faculty group, together with its support staff, responsible for instruction in a general subject area.
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1. Act of departing; departure. "Sudden departments from one extreme to another." (Wotton)
2. A part, portion, or subdivision.
3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. "Superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature." (Macaulay)
4. Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instructions; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
5. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
6. A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Origin: F. Departement, fr. Departir.
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