🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

uscita

Pronunciation / Transliteration: usheeta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Egression/ɪˈɡrɛʃ.ən/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'uscita di emergenza era chiaramente segnalata."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or process of going out or leaving a place.

    "The emergency blueprint clearly marks every designated route for rapid egress and egression during a crisis."
  2. 2

    The emergence or out-flowing of something from a source or origin.

    "Scientists monitored the egression of heated gas bubbles from the geothermal vent."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'egressio', stemming from 'egredi' meaning 'to go out' (ex- 'out' + gradi 'to walk, step'). Entering English in the early 17th century, it initially denoted the physical act of exiting or emerging from an enclosed space before acquiring broader ecological and technical connotations.

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