css
/ˌsi ˌɛs ˈɛs/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English
Meaning
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Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.
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Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs.
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Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China.
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Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).
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Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service).
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Example Sentences
- "The CSS has found its most productive use in DVDs containing motion pictures, and the movie industry invested heavily in the technology employed to produce CSSs in order to avoid the kind of mass copying that became prevalent with regard to music CDs in the late 1990s."
- "One needs only to decide upon a series of rules to define the functionality of a CSS and then to decide how to implement that sheet, either directly within their HTML document, or by using an externally linked file."
- "A marked-up document can have a CSS linked to it, but a user may have a CSS on their machine that will override it, which can cause problems sometimes and can need checking where publishers need to be sure the content is accurately presented."
- "Now, the first thing we will do is to alter our listing page to respect the layout of the original Agendatech, importing the CSSs."
- "Create a CSS with the following rules: a. Set the text color for the page to "#ff6600", and the text color for to "IndianRed"."
- "Recently, the construction of CSS has been reported for the mapping of a susceptibility locus for testicular cancer on mouse chromosome 19."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌsi ˌɛs ˈɛs/
- British English: /siː ɛs ˈɛs/