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"MSS" is a plural of: ms. |
Date "MSS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MSS maximum segment size. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Geological | The MSS is a nonphotographic imaging system which utilizes an oscillating mirror and fiber optic sensor array. The mirror sweeps from side to side, transmitting incoming energy to a detector array which sequentially outputs brightness values (signal strengths) for successive pixels, one swath at a time. The forward motion of the sensor platform carries the instrument to a position along its path where an adjacent swath can be imaged. The MSS simultaneously senses radiation using an array of six detectors in each of four spectral bands from 0.5 to 1.1 micrometers. (Multispectral Scanner). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A manuscript (Latin manu scriptus written by hand), strictly speaking, is any written document that is put down by hand, in contrast to being printed or reproduced some other way.
Manuscripts in history
Before the invention of the printing press, all written documents had to be both produced and reproduced by hand. Historically, manuscripts were produced in form of scrolls or books (codex in Latin). Manuscripts were produced on vellum and other parchments, on papyrus, and on paper.
In the West from the classical period through the early centuries of the Christian era, manuscripts were written without spaces between the words (scriptio continua), which makes them especially hard for the untrained to read. Extant copies of these early manuscripts, usually written in Greek or Latin and usually dating from the 300s to 700s, C.E, are classified according to their use of either all upper case or all lower case letters. Manuscripts using all upper case letters are called uncials, those using all lower case are called cursives.
Manuscripts today
According to Library and Information Science, a manuscript is any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.
In other contexts, however, the use of the term "manuscript" no longer necessarily means something that is hand-written.
In book and magazine publishing, a manuscript is an original copy of a work written by an author. In film and theatre, a manuscript, or script for short, is an author's or dramatist's text, used by a theater company or film crew during the production of the work's performance or filming.
In insurance, a manuscript policy is one that is negotiated between the insurer and the policyholder, as opposed to an off-the-shelf form supplied by the insurer.
The word manuscript is often abbreviated to MS., plural MSS.
See also
- Scriptorium
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Manuscript."
| 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 |
MSS | English | Marconi Space Systems | N/A |
| Mss. | Italian | Manoscritto | Language |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: MSS |
| English words defined with "MSS": Maccabees ♦ Obelus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "MSS": A-per-se ♦ Bernard's Inn, BIP-2 ♦ FLY ♦ Multispectral Scanner ♦ RBV ♦ Sloane MSS, Smoke Farthings. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | China | The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) regulates access to the Internet while the Ministries of Public and State Security (MPS and MSS) monitor its use. (references) |
China | Internet entrepreneurs have complained that Government regulations controlling the Internet were so broadly written that MSS officials could find any Web page operator or e-commerce merchant guilty of violating regulations. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "MSS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.87% of the time. "MSS" is used about 121 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) | 95.87% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Noun (common) | 2.48% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.65% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 121 | 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 |
mss | 210 | messenger mss | 3 |
e mss | 73 | group mss | 3 |
mss standard | 15 | 58 mss sp | 3 |
mss universe | 14 | adp mss.com | 3 |
cps.ca.gov mss | 7 | 1200 mss support system up will | 3 |
69 mss sp | 7 | 75 mss sp | 2 |
75 fttings mss sp welding | 6 | interscan mss | 2 |
mss staffing | 4 | dll mss | 2 |
2003 mss universe | 4 | independent mss | 2 |
global star demand mss | 4 | 32.dll mss | 2 |
cps.ca.gov job mss net | 4 | mss premier | 2 |
dfas e mss | 3 | clean mss technology | 2 |
mss quote stock | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "MSS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Greek | ομάδα MS σε κατάσταση ηρεμίας (group of MSs in idle mode). (various references) | |
Manx | Lsn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | mssay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words containing "MSS": bremsstrahlung, bremsstrahlungs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "m-s-s" | |
+1 letter: isms, mass, mess, miss, moss, muss, sims, sums. | |
+2 letters: amass, amiss, jisms, masks, massa, masse, massy, masts, mesas, messy, mises, misos, missy, mists, mosks, mosso, mossy, mosts, muses, musks, mussy, musts, samps, scams, scums, seams, seems, seism, semes, semis, shams, shims, simas, simps, skims, slams, slims, slums, smash, smews, smogs, smuts, somas, spams, spasm, stems, stums, sumos, sumps, swims. | |
| 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. | |
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