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ex⋅it

1  [eg-zit, ek-sit]
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–noun
1. a way or passage out: Please leave the theater by the nearest exit.
2. any of the marked ramps or spurs providing egress from a highway: Take the second exit after the bridge for the downtown shopping district.
3. a going out or away; departure: to make one's exit.
4. a departure of an actor from the stage as part of the action of a play.
5. Also called exit card. Bridge. a card that enables a player to relinquish the lead when having it is a disadvantage.
–verb (used without object)
6. to go out; leave.
7. Bridge. to play an exit card.
–verb (used with object)
8. to leave; depart from: Sign out before you exit the building.
Origin:
1580–90; partly < L exitus act or means of going out, equiv. to exi-, var. s. of exīre to go out (ex- ex- 1 + īre to go) + -tus suffix of v. action; partly n., v. use of exit 2

ex⋅it

2  [eg-zit, ek-sit]
–verb (used without object)
(he or she) goes offstage (used as a stage direction, often preceding the name of the character): Exit Falstaff.
Origin:
1530–40; < L ex(i)it lit., (he) goes out, 3rd sing. pres. of exīre; see exit 1
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ex·it   (ěg'zĭt, ěk'sĭt)   
n.  
  1. The act of going away or out.
  2. A passage or way out: an emergency exit in a theater; took the second exit on the throughway.
  3. The departure of a performer from the stage.
  4. Death.
v.   ex·it·ed, ex·it·ing, ex·its

v.   intr.
To make one's exit; depart.
v.   tr.
  1. To go out of; leave: exited the plane through a rear door.
  2. Computer Science To terminate the execution of (an application): exited the subroutine.

[From Latin, third person sing. of exīre, to go out : ex-, ex- + īre, to go; see ei- in Indo-European roots. N., sense 2, from Latin exitus, from past participle of exīre.]
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Exit

Ex"it\ [L., 3d pers. sing. pres. of exire to go out. See Exeunt, Issue.] He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

Note: The Latin words exit (he or she goes out), and exeunt ( they go out), are used in dramatic writings to indicate the time of withdrawal from the stage of one or more of the actors.

Exit

Ex"it\, n. [See 1st Exit.]

1. The departure of a player from the stage, when he has performed his part.

They have their exits and their entrances. --Shak.

2. Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of life; death; as, to make one's exit.

Sighs for his exit, vulgarly called death. --Cowper.

3. A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.

Forcing he water forth thought its ordinary exists. --Woodward.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : exit
Spanish: salida,
German: der Ausgang,
Japanese: 出口
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exit  (n.)
1538, from L. exit "he or she goes out," third pers. sing. pres. indicative of exire "go out," from ex- "out" + ire "go." Also from L. exitus "a leaving, a going out," noun of action from exire. Originally in Eng. as a stage direction (c.1485); Sense of "door for leaving" is 1786. The verb is 1607, from the noun; the verb in the transitive sense is first recorded 1976, Amer.Eng.; if it can't be killed, it ought to be quarantined in the clunky jargon of police reports.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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exit
1. A library function in the C and Unix run-time library that causes the program to terminate and return control to the shell. The alternative to calling "exit" is simply to "fall off the end" of the program or its top-level, main, routine.
Equivalent functions, possibly with different names, exist in pretty much every programming language, e.g. "exit" in Microsoft DOS or "END" in BASIC.
On exit, the run-time system closes open files and releases other resources. An exit status code (a small integer, with zero meaning OK and other values typically indicating some kind of error) can be passed as the only argument to "exit"; this will be made available to the shell. Some languages allow the programmer to set up exit handler code which will be called before the standard system clean-up actions.
2. Any point in a piece of code where control is returned to the caller, possibly activating one or more user-provided exit handlers. This might be a return statement, exit call (in sense 1 above) or code that raises an error condition (either intentionally or unintentionally). If the exit is from the top-level routine then such a point would typically terminate the whole program, as in sense 1.
(2008-05-15)

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