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CSS

Noun CEFR C2
siː ɛs ˈɛs

Definitions

  1. Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.
  2. Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
  3. Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs.
  4. Initialism of Central Superior Services.
  5. Initialism of Churg-Strauss syndrome.
  6. Initialism of Coffin-Siris syndrome.
  7. Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China.
  8. Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).
  9. Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service).
  10. Initialism of cascading style sheet.
  11. Initialism of control stick steering, a method of Space Shuttle flight control.
  12. Initialism of critical swim speed.
  13. Initialism of chromosome substitution strain.

Equivalents

FrançaisCSS

Examples

“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.”
“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⟳.”
“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.”
“Now, the first thing we will do is to alter our listing page to respect⟳ the layout of the original Agendatech, importing the CSSs.”
“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".”
“Recently, the construction of CSS has been reported for the mapping of a susceptibility locus for testicular cancer on mouse chromosome 19.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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