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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Egress \E"gress\, n. [L. egressus fr egredi to go out e out + gradi to go See {Grade}.] 1. The act of going out or leaving or the power to leave departure. Embarred from all egress and regress. --Holland. Gates of burning adamant, Barred over us prohibit all egress. --Milton. 2. (Astron.) The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Egress \E*gress"\, v. i. To go out to depart; to leave From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: egress n 1: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn: {emergence}, {issue}] 2: the act of coming (or going) out becoming apparent [syn: {egression}, {emergence}] 3: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: {emersion}]
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