exception
/əkˈsɛpʃən/ noun, verb
Forms exceptions exceptioning exceptioned
- noun The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. “the exception of a rule”
- noun That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included. “That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.”
- noun (law) An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- noun (usually followed by to or against) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
- noun (programming) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised (“thrown”) by one part of the program and handled (“caught”) by another part. “null pointer exception”
- verb (programming, intransitive, informal, rare) To throw an exception.
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Etymology
From Middle English exception, excepcioun, from Anglo-Norman excepcioun, from Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptiō. Equivalent to except + -ion.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- noun 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.
Etymology [L. exceptio: cf. F. exception.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “exception”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details