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exception

noun
/əkˈsɛpʃən/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception From Middle English exception, excepcioun, from Anglo-Norman excepcioun, from Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptiō. Equivalent to except + -ion.

  1. derived from exceptiō
  2. derived from excepcion
  3. derived from excepcioun
  4. inherited from exception

Definitions

  1. The act of excepting or excluding

    The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

    • the exception of a rule

  2. That which is excluded from others

    That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.

    • That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.
    • The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.

  3. An objection, on legal grounds

    An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. An objection

      An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.

    2. An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be…

      An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.

      • null pointer exception

    3. To throw an exception.

The neighborhood

Derived

be no exception, every rule has an exception, exceptionable, exceptioner, exception handler, exceptionless, exception that proves the rule, exceptious, first-chance exception, make an exception, management by exception, personal exception, state of exception, take exception, there is an exception to every rule, without exception, with the exception of

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at exception

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