exception
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ʃən noun
Idioms 1.
the act of excepting or the fact of being excepted.
2.
something excepted; an instance or case not conforming to the general rule.
3.
an adverse criticism, especially on a particular point; opposition of opinion; objection; demurral: a statement liable to exception.
4.
Law.
a.
an objection, as to a ruling of the court in the course of a trial.
b.
a notation that an objection is preserved for purposes of appeal: saving an exception.
5.
take exception,
a.
to make an objection; demur: They took exception to several points in the contract.
b.
to take offense: She took exception to what I said about her brother.
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exception (ɪkˈsɛpʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act of excepting or fact of being excepted; omission |
| 2. | anything excluded from or not in conformance with a general rule, principle, class, etc |
| 3. | criticism, esp when it is adverse; objection |
| 4. | law (formerly) a formal objection in the course of legal proceedings |
| 5. | law a clause or term in a document that restricts the usual legal effect of the document |
| 6. | take exception |
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Word Origin & History
exception
late 14c., from Anglo-Fr. excepcioun, Fr. exception, from L. exceptionem, noun of action from excipere (see except). The exception that proves the rule is from law: exceptio probat regulam in casibus non exceptis, "the exception proves the rule in cases not excepted;" exception
here being "action of excepting" someone or something from the rule in question, not the person or thing that is excepted. To take exception is from excipere being used in Roman law as a modern attorney would say objection. Related: Exceptional (1846); exceptionally.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary
exception definition
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)
American Heritage
Idioms & Phrases
exception
In addition to the idioms beginning with exception, also see except for (with the exception of); make an exception; take exception to.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
The team propose the theory that such yearlings are truly, in this case, the exception that proves the rule.
No such exception exists in the case of selling rights to clothing companies to reproduce team logos.
Yet the commissioners seem almost to have accepted the case for preserving the rule without exception.
The scoffers, the literary agnostics, make exception for her.
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