Noun: egress 'ee,gres
- The act of going or coming out
"The egress of people from the building was orderly";
- egression, emergence
- (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse
"Observers cheered at the moon's egress from the Earth's shadow";
- emersion
- 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