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CCS en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of casualty clearing station.
    • When a momentary lull came in the booms and the flashes, Hope, who had also been under fire at a C.C.S., gave way to the sudden bravado of rushing into the open to see whether the raiders had gone […] 1933, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Penguin, published 2005, page 417:
    • the rabbis found Jews dying to whom to administer; the vets, spavined mules; the V.A.D.s, men without jaws and shoulders in C.C.S.s; the camp-cookers, frozen beef […]. 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 331:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, qualifier:climate change, uncountable) Initialism of carbon capture and sequestration/storage.
    • Near-synonyms: CCU, CCUS
    • Meronyms: CC, carbon capture
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of chronic coronary syndrome.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of central cord syndrome
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of critical code studies
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of critical community size.

Forms

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CCSs Number=Plur lexicographic
CCSes Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

ACS

Synonyms

CCU · CCUS

wikidata: Q41491

Source: en.wiktionary, “CCS” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.