Usually means: Deviation from the normal rule.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word exception:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. exception: Merriam-Webster
  2. exception: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exception: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exception: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exception: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exception, exception: Wordnik
  7. exception: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exception: Wiktionary
  9. exception: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exception: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exception: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exception: Dictionary.com
  13. exception: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Exception (computer science), Exception (programming), Exception (video game), Exception, The Exception: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Exception: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. exception: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. exception: Rhymezone
  18. exception, exception (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. exception: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Exception: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. exception: FreeDictionary.org
  22. exception: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. exception: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. exception: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. exception: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. exception: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. exception: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Exception: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. exception: Legal dictionary
  10. exception: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. exception: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Exception(computing), Exception (computer science), Exception (computing), Exception (programming), exception: Encyclopedia
  3. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exception: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exception: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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 excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
▸ 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.

Similar:
exclusion, except, rule, caveat, instance, occasional, notable, aforementioned, exclude, acception, more...

Opposite:
rule, norm, standard, usual, typical

Types:
outlier, abberation, exceptionality, anomaly, more...

Phrases:
without exception, Exception handling, took exception, take exception, exception handler, more...

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only, possible, notable, single, important, rare, major, sole, partial, apparent, statutory

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Similar:
exclusion, except, rule, caveat, instance, occasional, notable, aforementioned, exclude, acception, more...

Opposite:
rule, norm, standard, usual, typical

Types:
outlier, abberation, exceptionality, anomaly, more...

Phrases:
without exception, Exception handling, took exception, take exception, exception handler, special exception, takes exception, automobile exception, checked exception, unchecked exception, peremptory exception, more...

Adjectives:
only, possible, notable, single, important, rare, major, sole, partial, apparent, statutory

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     platinum,     emerald,     sapphire, more...



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