parting

noun

1. The act of parting or dividing; division; separation.
2. The state of being parted.
3. A farewell, the act of departing politely.
4. The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
5. The joint or connected between two surfaces of one section of a mould.
6. The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
7. A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
8. The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
9. Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.