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egress

UK/ˈiːɡɹɛs/US/ˈiːɡɹɛs/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,841 of 15,258neutral

Egress is a way out, or the act of going out. Means of egress, egress route, free egress.

It is a technical word from building regulations, where means of egress is the whole protected path from any point to a final exit — and the rules about it exist because of fires that killed people who could not get out. Barnum famously used the word on a sign to move crowds along. Note ingress, its opposite.

Definitions of egress

  1. 1nounegressA way out, or the act of going out.C2

    “The car park had only one point of egress, so leaving after the concert took an hour.”

egress is an exit.

Remember it

The Latin is to step out, the same stepping in progress. An egress is the way out, and the going out through it.

hooks ontoprogress

Where it comes from

Latin egressus comes from egredi, to step out — ex plus gradi, to step. Progress and gradual come from the same stepping.

  1. Latin

    ēgressus

  2. English, today

    egress

From Latin ēgressus, from ex- + gressus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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egress in the wild

  • In computer networking, egress filtering is the practice of monitoring and potentially restricting the flow of information outbound from one network to another.

    Egress filtering

  • In a corporate network, typical recommendations are that all traffic except that emerging from a select set of servers would be denied egress.

    Egress filtering

  • Ingress, egress, and regress are legal terms referring respectively to entering, leaving, and returning to property or lands.

    Ingress, egress, and regress

  • There are several islands in the inlet, the largest of which is Kumdis Island, at the inlet's egress to Masset Sound and just north of Port Clements.

    Masset Inlet

  • An egress router is a label switch router that is an end point (drain) for a given label-switched path (LSP).

    Egress router

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.