egress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹgrĕs
ipa: /ˈiːɡɹɛs/
Forms: form: egresses
Etymology: From Latin ēgressus, from ex- + gressus.
Senses: examples: text: The window provides an egress in the event of an emergency.
text: Gates of burning adamant, / Barred over us, prohibit all egress.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “In Secret”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book III (The Track of a Storm), page 168:
text: 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.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: 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.
ref: 2019, Crystal Panek, Security Fundamentals, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 11:
text: 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.
ref: 2021 December 29, Dominique Louis, “Causal analysis: crashworthiness at Sandilands”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
antonyms: ingress
entrance
way in
glosses: An exit or way out.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2003, International Building Code (IBC), Chapter 10 section 1001.1:
text: Although the primary rationale for selection of antigenic and phase variants is believed to be the evasion of host antibodies resulting in persistence, other possibilities exist, such as differential adherence to host cells or regulation of host cell invasion and egress.
ref: 2017 July 15, Chris L McGowin, Patricia A Totten, “The Unique Microbiology and Molecular Pathogenesis of Mycoplasma genitalium”, in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, volume 216, number suppl_2, →DOI, pages S382–S388:
text: Now the crumpled structure lies across the Patapsco River outlet, blocking egress from the point like a kicked-over toy.
ref: 2024, Peter Grier, Key Bridge is gone. It leaves a hole in Baltimore’s blue-collar soul., in: The Christian Science Monitor, March 28 2024
synonyms: departure
antonyms: entering
entrance
glosses: The process of exiting or leaving.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The end of the transit of a celestial body through the disk of an apparently larger one.
Derived terms: ingress, egress, and regress