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Meaning of egress

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  egress
      n 1: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an
           eclipse [syn: {egress}, {emersion}] [ant: {immersion},
           {ingress}]
      2: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the
         emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow
         catkins" [syn: {emergence}, {egress}, {issue}]
      3: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn:
         {egress}, {egression}, {emergence}]
      v 1: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The
           words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: {issue},
           {emerge}, {come out}, {come forth}, {go forth}, {egress}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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