ESS

ESS

The term ESS may refer to the letter S or:

In policy and programs:
*Economic System of Socialism, economic policy implemented in East Germany in the 1960s
*European Security Strategy, a policy document of the European Union
*Emergency Social Services program, under the Provincial Emergency Program, the emergency preparedness program in British Columbia, Canada

In telecommunications:
*Electronic switching system, in telecommunications
*Endemol Southern Star, acronym for the Australian television company

In computing:
* Emacs Speaks Statistics, an add-on package for the Emacs editor.
* Electronic Speech Systems, a software company from Berkeley, USA that did synthesized speech for commercial home computer programs in the 80s, nowadays called ESS Technologies.
* Evolutionarily stable strategy, in evolutionary biology and game theory
* Environmental stress screening, in electronic hardware tests
* Enterprise Storage and Servers, part of the Technology Solutions Group business segment of Hewlett-Packard.
* IBM Enterprise Storage Server
* Extended Service Set, in wireless networking
* ESS Technology, Inc., a manufacturer of digital video and audio semiconductors.

Misc:
*Enfield Station School, Enfield, Maine
*Employee Self Service, in SAP or human resource management system
*English Springer Spaniel, a breed of dog
*Epworth Sleepiness Scale, for diagnosing sleep disorders
*Essex County, England (Chapman code)
*Esther (disambiguation), diminutive of the given name Esther
*European Spallation Source in nuclear technology, which may be built in Debrecen, Hungary; Basque Country (Bilbao), Spain; Lund, Sweden; or Burn, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
*Explained sum of squares, in statistics
*Eurest Support Services, a subsidiary of the catering company, the Compass Group.


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  • Ess- — Ess …   Deutsch Wörterbuch

  • -ess — 1. This suffix forms nouns denoting female persons or animals, and was adopted in Middle English from the Old French form esse (from late Latin issa). The first wave of ess words in English (countess, duchess, empress, hostess, mistress, princess …   Modern English usage

  • ESS — steht für: Evolutionär stabile Strategie das Großprojekt Europäische Spallations Neutronenquelle das Unternehmen ESS Technology Inc., ein Hardware und Chipsatzhersteller ESS (ElectroStatic Sound), ein ehemaliger Hersteller von Air Motion… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Ess — ist der Name folgender Personen: Émile Ess (1932–1990), Schweizer Ruderer Josef van Ess (* 1934), deutscher Islamwissenschaftler Margarete van Ess (* 1960), deutsche Vorderasiatische Archäologin Diese Seite ist eine …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • -ess — [OF. esse, LL. issa, Gr. ?.] A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • -ess — [es, is, əs] [ME esse, isse < OFr esse < LL issa < Gr] suffix forming nouns female [lioness]: In nouns of agent ending in tor or ter, the vowel is usually dropped before adding ess [actress] As applied to persons, now often avoided as… …   English World dictionary

  • ESS — UK US noun [U] ► HR, INTERNET ABBREVIATION for EMPLOYEE SELF SERVICE(Cf. ↑employee self service) …   Financial and business terms

  • ess — [ ıs, es ] suffix 1. ) used with some nouns to make nouns referring to women: actress (=a woman who acts in plays, movies, etc.) waitress (=a woman who serves people in a restaurant) 2. ) used with some nouns to make nouns meaning a female animal …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • -ess — fem. suffix, from Fr. esse, from L.L. issa, from Gk. issa (cognate with Old English fem. agent suffix icge); rare in classical Greek but more common later, in diakonissa deaconess and other Church terms picked up by Latin …   Etymology dictionary

  • -ess — ► SUFFIX ▪ forming nouns denoting female gender: abbess. USAGE In modern English, feminine forms (e.g. poetess, authoress) are likely to be regarded as old fashioned or sexist and should be avoided in favour of the ‘neutral’ base form (e.g. poet …   English terms dictionary

  • ess — [es] n. pl. esses 1. the letter S 2. something shaped like S …   English World dictionary

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