exception
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Noun (3)exceptions
- a deliberate act of omission“with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news”Synonyms: exclusionelisionType of omission
- an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization“all her children were brilliant; the only exception was her last child”“an exception tests the rule”Type of example, illustration
- grounds for adverse criticism“his authority is beyond exception”Type of objectionKinds caption
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Translations
Noun something excluded from a rule
- Spanish
- excepción
- French
- exception
- German
- Ausnahme
- Italian
- eccezione
- Portuguese
- exceção
- Turkish
- istisna
- Russian
- исключе́ние isključénije
- Arabic
- اِسْتِثْنَاء istiṯnāʔ
- Chinese
- 例外 lìwài
- Japanese
- 例外 reigai
23 more languages
- Dutch
- uitzondering
- Polish
- wyjątek
- Swedish
- undantag
- Greek
- εξαίρεση exaíresi
- Korean
- 예외 ye'oe
- Vietnamese
- ngoại lệ
- Hungarian
- kivétel
- Portuguese (PT)
- exceção
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 例外 lìwài
- Albanian
- përjashtim
- Catalan
- excepció
- Czech
- výjimka
- Danish
- undtagelse
- Esperanto
- escepto
- Finnish
- poikkeus
- Icelandic
- undantekning
- Lithuanian
- išimtis
- Norwegian
- unntak
- Romanian
- excepție
- Scottish Gaelic
- fàgail a-mach
- Serbo-Croatian
- iznimka
- Slovak
- výnimka
- Yiddish
- אויסנעם oysnem
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.
1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
Such rare exceptions, shining in the dark, Prove, rather than impeach, the just remark.— William Cowper
Often with to.
That proud exception to all nature's laws.— Alexander Pope
3. Law An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted. Alexander Mansfield. Burrill
4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
I will never answer what exceptions they can have against our account [relation].— Richard Bentley
He... took exception to the place of their burial.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
She takes exceptions at your person.— William Shakespeare
Bill of exceptions Law, a statement of exceptions to the decision, or instructions of a judge in the trial of a cause, made for the purpose of putting the points decided on record so as to bring them before a superior court or the full bench for review.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
An error condition that changes the normal flow of control in a program. An exception may be generated ("raised") by hardware or software. Hardware exceptions include reset, interrupt or a signal from a memory management unit. Exceptions may be generated by the arithmetic logic unit or floating-point unit for numerical errors such as divide by zero, overflow or underflow or instruction decoding errors such as privileged, reserved, trap or undefined instructions. Software exceptions are even more varied and the term could be applied to any kind of error checking which alters the normal behaviour of the program.
(1994-10-31)