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egress

noun
/ˈiːɡɹɛs//ɪˈɡɹɛs/

Etymology

From Latin egressum, past participle egredi.

  1. borrowed from ēgressus

Definitions

  1. An exit or way out.

    • The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency.
    • Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress.

  2. The process of exiting or leaving.

    • Now the crumpled structure lies across the Patapsco River outlet, blocking egress from the point like a kicked-over toy.

  3. The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To exit or leave

      To exit or leave; to go or come out.

The neighborhood

  • antonymcome inantonym(s) of “exit”
  • antonymenterantonym(s) of “exit”
  • antonymgo inantonym(s) of “exit”

Derived

ingress, egress, and regress

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at egress. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at egress. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at egress

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA