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exception | e |

As a noun exception

is exception.

As a letter e is

the letter e with a circumflex.

exception

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
  • That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
  • (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.
  • (senseid)An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; — usually followed by to or against.
  • (computing) An interruption in normal processing, especially as caused by an error condition.
  • Derived terms

    * checked exception * exception that proves the rule * take exception * there is an exception to every rule * without exception

    e

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=d, next=f, image= (wikipedia e)

    Letter

  • The fifth letter of the .
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Symbol

    (Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)
  • (label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
  • Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
  • 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
  • close-mid front unrounded vowel
  • (l)
  • a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
  • (label) electron
  • Synonyms

    * (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)

    See also

    {{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e ----