noun “exception”
singular exception, plural exceptions or uncountable
- something or someone that is not part of a general statement or does not follow a rule or pattern
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Everyone in the class must wear a uniform, but Maria is an exception because of her cast.
- in programming, a disruption during a program's execution due to an error, which can be identified and managed within the program
When the application tried to access a file that didn't exist, it triggered an exception that was caught by the error-handling routine.