Parting

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