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countable and uncountable, plural egresses
An exit or way out. quotations examples
Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress.
1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
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.
1859, Charles Dickens, “In Secret”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], book III (The Track of a Storm), page 168
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.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
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.
2019, Crystal Panek, Security Fundamentals, John Wiley & Sons, page 11
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.
2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33
The process of exiting or leaving. quotations examples
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.
2003, International Building Code (IBC), Chapter 10 section 1001.1
(astronomy) The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one. examples
third-person singular simple present egresses, present participle egressing, simple past and past participle egressed
(intransitive) To exit or leave; to go or come out. examples