exception

plural exceptions

1. countableuncountableThe act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.

   the exception of a rule

2. countableuncountableThat which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.

   That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.

   1 more example

   The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.

   2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 31

   Synonyms: outlier · Antonyms: commonness, generality

3. countableuncountablelawAn objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
4. countableuncountableusually followed by to or againstAn objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
5. countableuncountablecomputingAn 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.

   null pointer exception

present singular third person exceptions · participle present exceptioning · participle past exceptioned · past exceptioned

1. informalintransitiverarecomputingTo throw an exception.