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What does exception mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word exception? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
  2. That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included
  3. (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.
  4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
  5. (computing) An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be handled by another part of the program.
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The syncytial nature of the Siphonales was not revealed until 1879. The existence of syncytia constitutes an exception to the cell-theory.
The only exception is the Norwegian trench, which extends parallel to the Norwegian shoreline from Oslo to an area north of Bergen.
Grammars of Old French are without exception based on the Francien dialect.
The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie.
The fundamental component of the protozoan body is the protoplasm which is without exception differentiated into the nucleus and the cytosome.
Autarchoglossan families, if anything, have shifted away from ants and tend, with one exception, to eat fairly large prey.

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