Egress

Word EGRESS
Character 6
Hyphenation e gress e gress
Pronunciations /ˈiːɡɹɛs/

Definitions and meanings of "Egress"

What do we mean by egress?

The act of coming or going out; emergence. noun

The right to leave or go out. noun

A path or opening for going out; an exit. noun

The emergence of a celestial body from eclipse or occultation. noun

To go out; emerge. intransitive verb

The act of going or issuing out; a going or passing out; departure, especially from an inclosed or confined place. noun

Provision for passing out; a means or place of exit. noun

In astronomy, the passing of a star, planet, or satellite (except the moon) out from behind or before the disk of the sun, the moon, or a planet. noun

To go out; depart; leave.

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

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

To go out; to depart; to leave. intransitive verb

An exit or way out noun

The process of exiting or leaving. noun

The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one. noun

To exit or leave; to go or come out. verb

Come out of verb

The becoming visible noun

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

The act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent noun

An exit or way out.

The process of exiting or leaving.

The end of the apparent transit of a small astronomical body over the disk of a larger one.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Egress

The word "egress" in example sentences

She said that she and her colleague has a responsibility to customers to allow them easy ingress and egress from the station. ❋ Roy Greenslade (2010)

The NYPD also agreed to adopt written policies that ensure those lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights can gain access to protest areas, have adequate means of ingress and egress from the areas set aside for the protest, and that police provide adequate warning and an opportunity to disperse prior to using the Mounted Unit for crowd control. ❋ Unknown (2008)

From Leonardo's point of view, however, the eyes were window - (or velo -) like because they provided the soul with two means of egress from the body, not because they permitted others to see into oneself. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Judge Graffeo raises a good point in regard to the difficulty that this holding presents in determining when a particular means of ingress and egress is "primarily" used to access a common carrier. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Where, as here, a stairwell or approach is primarily used as a means of access to and egress from the common carrier, that carrier has a duty to exercise reasonable care to see that such means of approach remain in a safe condition or, where appropriate, to take such precautions or give such warnings as would protect those using such area against unforeseen danger. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The first involves the loss prevention employee physically preventing my egress from the property. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I was stationed in Korea, and my team chief and I would plan our egress from the site. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[Link] The latrines were also a means of egress from the camp: at least ten prisoners are known to have escaped from Johnson's Island, and evidence has been found of tunnels leading from the "sinks" to the stockade wall. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And they built a new causeway to provide easier egress from the city for those fleeing the next hurricane. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Is the treaty an egress from the cul-de-sac of aboriginal poverty? ❋ Unknown (2003)

If Sprague's target had been in North Vietnam, and he was based in Thailand, it is possible that he was on approach or egress from the target, guided by radar sites in northern Laos. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Emergency egress is accomplished by sliding down a chute in the bottom of the aircraft. ❋ Unknown (1990)

Support aircraft remained on station about 30 minutes, waiting for the attack aircraft to regain radio contact at the designated time and position upon egress from the target area. ❋ Unknown (1990)

Other pilots in the flight observed Whitt's aircraft crash in an inverted position upon egress from the target, about 25 miles southeast of the city of Muong Nong. ❋ Unknown (1990)

During their egress from the target area the aircraft passed through an area of reported anti-aircraft fire. ❋ Unknown (1990)

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