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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | GSS |
Census | (Geographic Support System) The TIGER System plus all other geographic activities supporting the census and survey activities of the Census Bureau; for example, all 1990 decennial census geographic products, 1992 Economic and Agriculture Census geographic products, the operations that use the boundary change information collected in the Boundary Annexation Survey, the United States Geological Survey map files, and so forth. (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 |
GSS | English | Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome | Food & Agriculture, Biology & Biotechnology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: GSS |
| Specialty definitions using "GSS": General Support System, Group-Sweeping Scheduling. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | FFI and GSS are extremely rare hereditary diseases, found in just a few families around the world. (references) | |
Fatal familial insomnia and GSS are extremely rare hereditary diseases, found in just a few families around the world. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | The Government generally respects academic freedom; however, in December the human rights organization Adalah claimed that the Government interferes with the education of Israeli Arab students because a member of the GSS monitors and approves the appointment of teachers and administrators in Arab schools. (references) |
Economic History | Serbia and Montenegro | The last election for the Chamber of Republics was held on December 24, 1996. The last election for the Chamber of Citizens was held 3 November 1996. The distribution of seats by party is: SPS/JUL/ND 64, Zajedno (a coalition of SPO, DS, and GSS) 22, DPSCG 20, SRS 16, NS 8, SVM 3, other 5. (references) |
Human Rights | Israel and the occupied territories | Human rights groups further complain that the investigators who do field work for the Attorney General's office on such claims are GSS agents. (references) |
Political Economy | Israel and the occupied territories | Internal security is the responsibility of the Israel Security Agency (the ISA--formerly the General Security Service, or GSS, and also known as Shin Bet, or Shabak), which is under the authority of the Prime Minister's office. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "GSS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "GSS" is used about 9 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 (proper) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (common) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "GSS": GSS-API. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
gss | 51 |
gss security.com | 5 |
gss visa.com.sg | 5 |
gss hashing interface | 3 |
gss sg | 2 |
gss novi | 2 |
gss norc | 2 |
forum gss | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "g-s-s" | |
+1 letter: sags, segs. | |
+2 letters: gases, gasps, gassy, gasts, gauss, gesso, gests, gists, glass, gloss, grass, gross, guess, gussy, gusts, sagas, sages, sagos, scags, segos, shags, shogs, sighs, signs, sings, skags, skegs, slags, slogs, slugs, smogs, snags, snogs, snugs, songs, stags, sughs, swags, swigs. | |
+3 letters: agisms, agists, angsts, assign, bagass, egests, egises, egress, gashes, gassed, gasser, gasses, geests, gestes, ghosts, gismos, glassy, glossa, glossy, glosts, gneiss, gnoses, gnosis, gooses, gorses, gossan, gossip, grasps, grassy, grists, guests, guises, gushes, gusset, gussie, megass, ogress, sagest, saigas, sangas, sanghs, sarges, saughs, scrags, sedges, segnos, segues, serges, shrugs, sieges, sights, sigils, siglos, sigmas, singes, slangs, slings, sorgos, soughs, sprags, sprigs, sprugs, squegs, stages, staigs, stangs, stings, sugars, surges, swages, swings, syngas, usages. | |
| 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)47 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 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 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)415353 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Abbreviations | 9. Acronyms 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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