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Noun: egress  'ee,gres
  1. The act of going or coming out
    "The egress of people from the building was orderly";
    - egression, emergence
     
  2. (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse
    "Observers cheered at the moon's egress from the Earth's shadow";
    - emersion
Verb: egress  'ee,gres
  1. Come out of
    "The spacecraft egressed the Earth's atmosphere";
    - issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth

Derived forms: egresses, egressed, egressing

Type of: act, come, come up, deed, human action, human activity, reappearance

Antonym: immersion

Part of: eclipse, occultation

Encyclopedia: Egress