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Meaning of CSS | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2
/siː ɛs ˈɛs/

Definitions

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

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

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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