Noun

Singular exit

Plural exits

exit (plural exits)

1. A way out.

   He was looking for the exit and got lost.

2. A passage or gate from inside someplace to the outside.

   She stood at the exit of the house looking back and waving at those inside.

3. The action of leaving.

   He made his exit at the opportune time.

Derived terms

• emergency exit
• exit policy
• exit poll
• exit program
• exit wound
• fire exit

Verb

Infinitive to exit

Third person singular exits

Simple past exited

Past participle exited

Present participle exiting

to exit (third-person singular simple present exits, present participle exiting, simple past and past participle exited)

1. To go out
2. To leave

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

• EXIT (festival), a music festival in Serbia
• "Exit" (song), a song from U2's album The Joshua Tree
• Exit Records, a record label
• Exit (k-os album), a 2002 album from Canadian musician k-os
• Exit (Pat Martino album), a 1977 album by Italian musician Pat Martino
• Exit (Rotten Sound album), a 2005 album from Finnish band Rotten Sound
• Exit (Shugo Tokumaru album), a 2007 album from Japanese musician Shugo Tokumaru
• Exit (Tangerine Dream album), a 1981 album from the German band, Tangerine Dream

Arts and entertainment

• Exit, a theatrical term instructing an actor to leave the scene
• EXIT (performance art group), a performance art group in the 1970s
• Exit (comic), a French comic by Bernard Werber and Alain Mounier
• Exit (video game), a video game for the PSP, Xbox Live Arcade and Nintendo DS

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