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EGRESS (Lat. egressus, going out)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 21 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EGRESS (See also:Lat. egressus, going out)  , in See also:astronomy, the end of the apparent transit of a small See also:body over the disk of a larger one; especially of a transit of a See also:satellite of See also:Jupiter over the disk of that See also:planet . It designates the moment at which the smaller body is seen to leave the See also:limb of the other .

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