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Definitions for egress
ˈi grɛs; ɪˈgrɛsegress

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. egress, emersionnoun

    (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

  2. emergence, egress, issuenoun

    the becoming visible

    "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins"

  3. egress, egression, emergenceverb

    the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

  4. issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egressverb

    come out of

    "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Egressnoun

    The act of going out of any place; departure.

    Etymology: egressus, Latin.

    And gates of burning adamant,
    Barr’d over us, prohibit all egress. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. ii.

    This water would have been locked up within the earth, and its egress utterly debarred, had the strata of stone and marble remained continuous. John Woodward, Natural History.

ChatGPT

  1. egress

    Egress refers to the act of going out of or leaving a place. It can also refer to a place or means of exiting, such as a door or exit. In the context of data transfer, it denotes the flow of data outbound from a network.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Egressnoun

    the act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure

  2. Egressnoun

    the passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit

  3. Egressverb

    to go out; to depart; to leave

  4. Etymology: [L. egressus, fr. egredi to go out; e out + gradi to go. See Grade.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Egress

    ē′gres, n. act of going out: departure: the way out: the power or right to depart.—n. Egres′sion, the act of going out. [L. egredi, egressuse, out, forth, and gradi, to go.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. egress

    At a transit of an inferior planet over the sun, this term means the passing off of the planet from his disc.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of egress in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of egress in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of egress in a Sentence

  1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

    We have decided to reduce to the minimum necessary the access and egress from the city.

  2. Joe Montoya:

    There was a large presence because we had two groups with opposing views, and we know that can always get very tense, theres always potential for violence, we understand that. We had a large contingent there to try to watch the egress of one group, so that the other group wouldnt intermingle with them, so thats the reason for the large presence there.

  3. Joe Montoya:

    There was a large presence because we had two groups with opposing views, and we know that can always get very tense, theres always potential for violence, we understand that. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP We had a large contingent there to try to watch the egress of one group, so that the other group wouldnt intermingle with them, so thats the reason for the large presence there.

  4. The B-52:

    Those were the only three seats we had activated for egress.

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