ss Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the United States intelligence agency that protects current and former presidents and vice presidents and their immediate families and protects distinguished foreign visitors; detects and apprehends counterfeiters; suppresses forgery of government securities and documents
    USSS; United States Secret Service; US Secret Service; Secret Service.
  2. noun special police force in Nazi Germany founded as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler in 1925; the SS administered the concentration camps
    Schutzstaffel.
  3. noun 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
    second; sec; s.
  4. noun an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions)
    sulfur; S; sulphur; atomic number 16.
  5. noun the cardinal compass point that is at 180 degrees
    due south; S; southward; south.
  6. noun a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm
    mho; S; reciprocal ohm; siemens.
  7. noun the 19th letter of the Roman alphabet
    s.
  8. noun (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work
    randomness; entropy; S.
    • entropy increases as matter and energy in the universe degrade to an ultimate state of inert uniformity

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