Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word EXCEPTION

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Definitions of EXCEPTION

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 excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
3. (legal) 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. (usually, followed by to or against) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
5. (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.

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Examples of Using EXCEPTION in a Sentence

• The feliforms include the Felidae, Viverridae, hyena, and mongoose families, the majority of which live only in the Old World; cats are the only exception, occurring in the old world and the new world, entering the Americas via the Bering Land Bridge.
• Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule.
• Chipmunks are found in North America, with the exception of the Siberian chipmunk which is found primarily in Asia.
• The carbides of the group 4, 5 and 6 transition metals (with the exception of chromium) are often described as interstitial compounds.
• They are native to the Americas, ranging from Patagonia in the south to parts of western Canada in the north, with the exception of Rhipsalis baccifera, which is also found in Africa and Sri Lanka.
• The tournament has been held every four years since the inaugural tournament in 1930, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 due to the Second World War.
• Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands that comprise almost the entire Hawaiian archipelago (the exception, which is outside the state, is Midway Atoll).
• The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception).
• With the exception of the coastal plains, the ice age divided Latvia into three main regions: the morainic Western and Eastern uplands and the Middle lowlands.
• It is "commonly used to describe South America (with the exception of Suriname, Guyana and the Falkland islands), plus Central America, Mexico, and most of the islands of the Caribbean".
• Mira A is a pulsating variable star and was the first non-supernova variable star discovered, with the possible exception of Algol.
• With the exception of the National Police, all military and paramilitary forces are trained in military fashion.
• Obituary has released eleven studio albums and, with the exception of a six-year hiatus from 1997 to 2003, they continue to perform live.
• The one exception is when there are only two players (a "heads-up" game), when the player on the button (the dealer) is the small blind, and the other player is the big blind.
• According to the Standard Model, the proton, a type of baryon, is stable because baryon number (quark number) is conserved (under normal circumstances; see Chiral anomaly for an exception).
• Unlike the C-135 and KC-135 which are recognized by Boeing as the Model 717, most of the current RC-135 fleet, with the exception of the RAF's RC-135Ws, is internally designated as the Model 739 by the company.
• Most of the network started construction after the discovery of oil in the Eastern Province in 1952, with the notable exception of Highway 40, which was built to connect the capital Riyadh to the economically productive Eastern Province, and later to the Islamic holy city of Mecca and the port city of Jeddah.
• One exception is Lactobacillus plantarum and related lactobacilli, which use intracellular manganese to prevent damage from reactive.
• Most (with the exception of group 11 and group 12) are hard and strong, and have high melting and boiling temperatures.
• An exception is "The Elements", in which he set the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.
• Officials are popularly elected at the federal, state and local levels, with the major exception being the President, who is instead elected indirectly by the people through the Electoral College.
• A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana, were attributed to him in ancient times, but modern scholars generally regard these works as spurious, with the possible exception of a few short pieces.
• With one exception, VITC contains the same payload as SMPTE linear timecode (LTC), embedded in a new frame structure with extra synchronization bits and an error-detection checksum.
• The Westminster system is used, or was once used, in the national and subnational legislatures of most former colonies of the British Empire, upon gaining self-government (with the exception of the United States and Cyprus), beginning with the first of the Canadian provinces in 1848 and the six Australian colonies between 1855 and 1890.
• It has no power switch or moving parts, with the exception of a VHF TV channel selector switch present in some models.

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