Egress

/ˈiːɡɹɛs/ · noun

Meaning

An exit or way out..

Definitions by Sense

1. An exit or way out.
2. The process of exiting or leaving.
3. (astronomy) The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one.
4. (intransitive) To exit or leave; to go or come out.

Example Sentences

The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency.

Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress.

Looking about him while in this state of suspense, Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest people, was very difficult.

Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.

Egress traffic is network traffic that begins inside a network and proceeds through its routers to its destination somewhere outside the network. […] While network ingress filtering makes Internet traffic traceable to its source, egress filtering helps ensure that unauthorized or malicious traffic never leaves the network.

We also found that the only emergency egress from the tram was by smashing the front or rear windscreens, and that emergency lighting had failed when the tram overturned.

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

Buildings or portions thereof shall be provided with a means of egress system as required this chapter. The provisions of this chapter shall control the design, construction and arrangement of means egress components required to provide an approved means of egress from structures and portions thereof.

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Word Forms

• egresses
• egressing
• egressed

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