1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Part.

2. (v.) Serving to part; dividing; separating.

3. (v.) Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.

4. (v.) Departing.

5. (v.) Admitting of being parted; partible.

6. (n.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.

7. (n.) A separation; a leave-taking.

8. (n.) A surface or line of separation where a division occurs.

9. (n.) The surface of the sand of one section of a mold where it meets that of another section.

10. (n.) The separation and determination of alloys; esp., the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.

11. (n.) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.

12. (n.) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.

13. (n.) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.