CSS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siː ɛs ˈɛs/
enpr: sē' ĕs' ĕsʹ
ipa: /ˌsi ˌɛs ˈɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: CSSs
form: CSSes
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2008, John W. Hazard, Copyright Law in Business and Practice, West Group, →ISBN, page 86:
topics: DVD
media
glosses: Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Churg-Strauss syndrome.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Coffin-Siris syndrome.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China.
topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 162:
text: A marked-up document can have a CSS linked to it, but a user may have a CSS on their machine that will override it, which can cause problems sometimes and can need checking where publishers need to be sure the content is accurately presented.
ref: 2013, Frania Hall, The Business of Digital Publishing: An Introduction to the Digital Book and Journal Industries, Routledge, →ISBN, page 22:
text: Now, the first thing we will do is to alter our listing page to respect the layout of the original Agendatech, importing the CSSs.
ref: 2014, Alberto Souza, Practical Play Framework: Focus on What Is Really Important, Editora Casa do Código, →ISBN:
text: Create a CSS with the following rules: a. Set the text color for the page to "#ff6600", and the text color for <h1> to "IndianRed".
ref: 2021, Prashant Joshi, Introduction to IT Systems, Khanna Book Publishing Co. (P) Ltd., published 2022, →ISBN, page 110:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
glosses: Initialism of cascading style sheet.
qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of control stick steering, a method of Space Shuttle flight control.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of critical swim speed.
examples: text: Recently, the construction of CSS has been reported for the mapping of a susceptibility locus for testicular cancer on mouse chromosome 19.
ref: 2005, Eugene J. Eisen, editor, The Mouse in Animal Genetics and Breeding Research, Imperial College Press, →ISBN, page 77:
text: However, the gender of the mice, and, hence, the “direction” of the cross, is important to ensure that the X and Y chromosomes and the mitochondria are derived from the host strain in autosomal CSSs.
ref: 2006, Annie E. Hill, Eric S. Lander, Joseph H. Nadeau, “Chromosome Substitution Strains: A New Way to Study Genetically Complex Traits”, in Qing K. Wang, editor, Cardiovascular Disease: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Medicine), volume I (Genetics), Humana Press, →ISBN, page 160:
text: CSS models are also advantageous for detecting a given QTL in the presence of many other QTLs. In comparing results of published mapping studies, as many, and usually substantially more, QTLs were detected with CSSs than with F₂ intercrosses of comparable size.
ref: 2008, Wendell W. Weber, Pharmacogenetics, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 288:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of chromosome substitution strain.