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"SSS" is a plural of: ss. |
| Domain | Definition |
Census | (Special Sworn Status Individual) Current designation for a temporary employee hired to assist the Census Bureau on work authorized by Title 13, and subject to the same confidentiality requirements as regular Census Bureau employees. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SSS | Danish | Syg sinusknude syndrom | Medicine |
SSS | English | Smart Sensory Systems | N/A |
SSS | French | Société suisse de sociologie | Social Sciences |
SSS | German | Seuchenhafter Spaetabort der Schweine | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | SSS (1988) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Nigeria | For example, Dr. Olua Kamalu, deputy president of MOSOP, reported that the SSS seized his passport in 2000. Kamalu was planning a trip to Ghana to attend a visa interview at a foreign embassy. (references) |
Worker Rights | Philippines | The situation was defused when the SSS head accepted a transfer to another government position. (references) |
Yugoslavia | On October 16, the SSS held a small general strike to prevent the adoption of the labor law; as a result the Serbian government negotiated with the unions and accepted proposed amendments that were incorporated into the labor law. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SSS" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "SSS" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
sss | 617 | government ph sss | 4 |
philippine sss | 25 | inquiry sss system | 3 |
sss triple | 12 | pulsar sss | 3 |
inquiry sss | 11 | sex sss | 3 |
nissan pulsar sss | 10 | online sss | 3 |
sss tonic | 9 | 1600 datsun sss | 3 |
result sss | 8 | gov.com.ph sss | 3 |
lunar sss | 6 | gov.com sss | 2 |
sss steel | 6 | datsun sss | 2 |
application.tourou.edu pass.asp sss | 5 | sss trio | 2 |
sss steel.com | 5 | sss zipper | 2 |
computers.com sss | 4 | com sss | 2 |
bird blue sss | 4 | online.sss.gov.ph sss | 2 |
sale sample sss | 4 | in philippine sss | 2 |
government sss | 4 | complete lunar sss | 2 |
bird blue nissan sss | 4 | ||
complete lunar sss | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: sass, suss. | |
+2 letters: asses, esses, sassy, sises, sissy, stoss, swiss. | |
+3 letters: assais, assays, assess, assets, assist, basses, bassos, bosses, busses, byssus, cassis, cesses, cusses, cussos, disses, dosses, essays, fesses, fossas, fosses, fusses, gasses, hisses, isseis, issues, jesses, josses, kisses, kussos, lasses, lassos, losses, lyssas, massas, masses, messes, misses, missis, missus, mosses, musses, nesses, obsess, passes, passus, pisses, posses, pusses, salsas, sashes, sasins, sassed, sasses, schuss, seises, seisms, senses, sepses, sepsis, shists, sisals, souses, spasms, speiss, stases, stasis, strass, stress, sudses, sushis, sussed, susses, sysops, tasses, tosses, tusses, tussis, wisses, wusses, yesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 53 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0053 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)535353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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