Exit

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EXIT or exit (from the Latin exit (“he/she/it goes out”) the third-person singular present active indicative of exeō (“go out”)) may refer to:

  • Emergency exit, or fire exit, used in case of an emergency
  • Exit ramp, or slip road, used to leave an expressway or motorway
  • Exit procedure, or exit interview, related to the termination of an employee
  • Exit plan, commonly used to describe a plan for business owners to divest themselves of their business, or the planning for the termination of an operation
  • Exit sign, indicating a point of egress
Computing
  • Exit (operating system), a system call to terminate a running program, process, task, or thread
  • Exit (command), a termination command in UNIX, DOS, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows
  • User exit, a predefined replaceable procedure in a software package
Popular music
Arts and entertainment
Other
  • Exit (group), three European organisations centred around helping young people to leave the neo-Nazi scene
  • EXIT, a pro-euthanasia group formed in the UK in 1935. The name is still used by the Scottish-based group (www.euthanasia.cc) although the name has also been used by various other pro-euthanasia groups around the world over the years. Exit specialises in information on 'self-deliverance,' books and workshops on rational suicide as an insurance against unbearable and unrelievable suffering if all else fails.
  • EXIT International, a pro-euthanasia group in Australia and other countries
  • Exit (economics), the ability to opt-out of future transactions, which in constitutional economy implies a right of secession

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