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| Domain | Definition |
Geological | Based out of New York, New York, GISS, one of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center research facilities, institutes activities involving research and analysis in specialized subjects, including climate, biogeochemical cycles, remote sensing, and planetary atmospheres. (Goddard Institute of Space Studies). (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 |
GISS | English | Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Geography |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: GISS |
| Non-English Usage: "GISS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (g sharp). |
| "GISS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "GISS" is used about 5 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 (singular) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GISS": giss-giss. | |
Ending with "GISS": giss-giss. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words containing "GISS": regisseur, regisseurs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sis. | |
-2 letters: is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-s-s" | |
+1 letter: gists, sighs, signs, sings, swigs. | |
+2 letters: agisms, agists, assign, egises, gismos, gneiss, gnosis, gossip, grists, guises, gussie, saigas, sieges, sights, sigils, siglos, sigmas, singes, slings, sprigs, staigs, stings, swings. | |
+3 letters: aegises, ageisms, ageists, askings, assagai, assegai, assigns, bigness, bossing, busings, bussing, casings, cessing, cosigns, cussing, designs, digests, digress, disgust, dissing, dossing, egoisms, egoists, ensigns, fessing, fussing, gaposis, gaskins, gassier, gassily, gassing, geishas, genesis, gibsons, gipsies, girshes, glassie, gossips, gossipy, grilses, grisons, gussied, gussies, gypsies, hissing, ingests, ingress, isogons, isologs, issuing, jessing, jigsaws, kissing, legists, ligases, losings, massing, messing, missing, mossing, musings, mussing, nosings, ogrisms, passing, pissing, resigns, risings, sagiest, sashing, sassing, savings, sayings, seeings, seising, sensing, sewings, sidings, sighers, signals, signees, signers, signets, signors, silages, singers, singles, sizings, skiings, sleighs, slights, smidges, sorings, sousing, spigots, springs, stigmas, stingos, stogies, strings, sudsing, sussing, swinges, tigress, tossing, visages, wigless, wissing, yessing, zygosis. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 49 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)01000111 01001001 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G I S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0049 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)41435353 |
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