3-letter words containing s
- gsm — Grams per square meter, a measure of weight for paper.
- gsr — galvanic skin response
- gss — (storage) Group-Sweeping Scheduling.
- gst — goods and services tax
- gus — a male given name, form of Augustus or Gustave.
- has — a 3rd person singular present indicative of have.
- hcs — Heterogeneous Computer System A distributed system project.
- hds — heads
- hes — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- hhs — Health and Human Services: the United States government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services
- his — any male person or animal; a man: hes and shes.
- hjs — hic jacet sepultus
- hms — HMS is used before the names of ships in the British Royal Navy. HMS is an abbreviation for 'Her Majesty's Ship' or 'His Majesty's Ship'.
- hos — Plural form of ho.
- hrs — Hours.
- hsa — In the U.S., an HSA is a medical savings account with tax advantages that is available to taxpayers who are enrolled in a high deductible health plan.
- hsb — hue, saturation, brightness
- hsc — High Speed Connect
- hse — Health and Safety Executive
- hsh — His (or Her) Serene Highness
- hsm — His (or Her) Serene Majesty
- hst — high speed train
- hsu — Health Services Union
- hsv — hue, saturation, value
- hts — Heights
- hus — John, 1369?–1415, Czech religious reformer and martyr.
- ias — 1. (computer) The first modern computer. It had main registers, processing circuits, information paths within the central processing unit, and used Von Neumann's fetch-execute cycle. The IAS machine's basic unit of information was a 40-bit word and the memory had 4096 words. A word stored in memory could represent either an instruction or data. Each IAS instruction was twenty bits long, so that two instructions could be stored in each 40-bit memory location. Each instruction consisted of an 8-bit operation code and a 12-bit address that could identify any of 2^12 locations that may be used to store an operand of the instruction. The CPU consisted of a data processing unit and a program control unit. It contained various processing and control circuits along with a set of high-speed registers for the temporary storage of instructions, memory addresses, and data. The main actions specified by instructions were performed by the arithmetic-logic circuits of the data processing unit. An electronic clock circuit was used to generate the signals needed to synchronise the operation of the different parts of the system. 2. Immediate Access Storage.
- ibs — any combination of common disturbances of the bowel, as diarrhea or constipation, occurring with abdominal pain, sometimes accompanied by psychological stress. Abbreviation: IBS.
- ics — Nouns ending in -ics that name fields of study, sciences, arts, professions, or the like are usually not preceded by an article and are used with a singular verb: Acoustics (the science) deals with sound. Politics (the art of government) fascinates me. In certain uses, often when preceded by a determiner like the, his, her, or their, most of these nouns can take a plural verb: The acoustics (the sound-reflecting qualities) of the hall are splendid. Their politics (political opinions) have antagonized everyone.
- ids — a means of identification, as a card or bracelet containing official or approved identification information.
- ies — (rare) Plural form of i, the name of the letter I.
- ifs — a supposition; uncertain possibility: The future is full of ifs.
- igs — Internet Go Server.
- ihs — the first three letters of the name Jesus in Greek (ΙΗΣΟΥΣ), often used as a Christian emblem
- iis — 1. (web) Internet Information Server. 2. (language) Idealized Instruction Set.
- ils — instrument landing system
- ims — Information Management System
- ins — (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits): walking in the park.
- ios — a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey.
- ips — A threaded language.
- irs — Internal Revenue Service
- is- — iso-
- is. — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- isa — 1. (architecture) Integrated Systems Architecture. 2. (body) International Smalltalk Association. 3. (architecture) instruction set architecture. 4. (architecture) Industry Standard Architecture.
- isd — international subscriber dialling
- ise — Interactive Software Engineering
- isf — Information Systems Factory
- ish — Eye dialect of is.
- isl — Interface Specification Language. Xerox PARC. Interface description language used by the ILU (Inter-Language Unification) system. Includes descriptions of multiple inheritance, exceptions and garbage collection. E-mail: Bill Janssen <[email protected]>.
- ism — a distinctive doctrine, theory, system, or practice: This is the age of isms.