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CSS

  • /siː ɛs ˈɛs/ UK
  • /ˌsi ˌɛs ˈɛs/ US

Rhymes with -ɛs

noun CSSs · CSSes

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Content Scramble System, a DRM and encryption system for DVDs. 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.
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Churg-Strauss syndrome
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Coffin-Siris syndrome
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Chinese surface-to-surface (missile), a NATO prefix-code for systems developed by the People's Republic of China.
  6. abbreviation, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Confederate States Ship (the designation for a commissioned warship operated by the Confederate States Navy).
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Canadian Survey Ship (the designation for a survey ship operated by the Canadian Hydrographic Service).
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of cascading style sheet 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.
  9. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of control stick steering, a method of Space Shuttle flight control.
  10. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of critical swim speed
  11. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of chromosome substitution strain Recently, the construction of CSS has been reported for the mapping of a susceptibility locus for testicular cancer on mouse chromosome 19.

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language.
  2. Pakistan, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Central Superior Services

phrase

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of can't see shit “I don't know. I just don't know. What is it? I suffer from CSS—that's Can't See Shit—but I don't think I could hold a cane in my hand.”

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: caesium, cesium, ssm, slc, hss, ccs, nca, nsc, cst, sab, usc, scn, csc, tos, scc, stc

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@misc{css_2026,
  title = {CSS},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/css},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}