Css
name, noun, phrase ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 2 Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"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."
- 3 Initialism of Churg-Strauss syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 4 Initialism of Coffin-Siris syndrome. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 5 Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
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- 6 Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable
- 7 Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service). abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 8 Initialism of cascading style sheet. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"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."
- 9 Initialism of control stick steering, a method of Space Shuttle flight control. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 10 Initialism of critical swim speed. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 11 Initialism of chromosome substitution strain. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
"Recently, the construction of CSS has been reported for the mapping of a susceptibility locus for testicular cancer on mouse chromosome 19."
- 1 Initialism of can't see shit. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"“I don't know. I just don't know. What is it? I suffer from CSS—that's Can't See Shit—but I don't think I could hold a cane in my hand.”"
- 1 Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Initialism of Central Superior Services. Pakistan, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Example
More examples"Not even at gunpoint will Imogen of the Internet admit she only learned CSS to spruce up her Myspace profile in the 2000s."
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