The suffix ''-ess'' (plural ''-esses'') appended to English words makes a female form of the word.
ESS or ess may refer to:
Education
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Ernestown Secondary School
Ernestown Intermediate and Secondary School or EISS or ESS is a Canadian public, comprehensive school located in Odessa, Ontario, Canada. The school services about 450 students from Loyalist, Ontario, Loyalist Township, Greater Napanee, Napanee ...
, in Odessa, Ontario
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European Standard School, in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Government
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Economic System of Socialism, an East German economic policy
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Emergency Social Services, in British Columbia, Canada
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Emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly (ESS of UNGA), an unscheduled meeting of the general assembly
People
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Barbara Ess
Barbara Ess (born Barbara Eileen Schwartz; April 4, 1944 – March 4, 2021) was an American pinhole camera photographer, No Wave musician and ''Just Another Asshole'' editor. She taught photography at Bard College since 1997; who in 2024, along w ...
(1948-2021), American photographer
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Brandon Ess (born 1971), German cricketer
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Émile Ess (1932–1990), Swiss rower
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Gene Ess, Japanese-American guitarist
Science and medicine
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Earth system science
Earth system science (ESS) is the application of systems science to the Earth. In particular, it considers interactions and 'feedbacks', through material and energy fluxes, between the Earth's sub-systems' cycles, processes and "spheres"—atmosp ...
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Empty sella syndrome
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Epworth Sleepiness Scale
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European Social Survey
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European Spallation Source, a nuclear research facility
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Euthyroid sick syndrome
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Evolutionarily stable strategy
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Explained sum of squares
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Effective sample size
In survey research, the design effect is a number that shows how well a sample of people may represent a larger group of people for a specific measure of interest (such as the mean). This is important when the sample comes from a sampling method ...
Sport
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ES Sétif
Entente Sportive Sétifienne (), known as Entente de Sétif, commonly referred to as ES Sétif or ESS for short, is an Algerian professional association football, football club based in Sétif. The club was founded in 1958 and its colours are bl ...
, an Algerian professional football club
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Étoile Sportive du Sahel, a Tunisian football club
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Extreme Sailing Series, a series of sailing regattas
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Eye Safety Systems, one of major manufacturer of tactical eye protection
Technology
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Electronic switching system, an automated telephone exchange
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Emergency stop signal, on automobiles
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Energy storage system
Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time to reduce imbalances between energy demand and energy production. A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery. Energy comes in ...
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Environmental Sensor Station
A Road Weather Information System (RWIS) comprises automatic weather stations (AWS) (often technically referred to as Environmental Sensor Stations (ESS) as they also cover non-meteorological variables) in the field, a communication system for da ...
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Environmental stress screening
Environmental stress screening (ESS) refers to the process of exposing a newly manufactured or repaired product or component (typically electronic) to stresses such as thermal cycling and vibration in order to force latent defects to manifest the ...
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ESS Technology
ESS Technology Incorporated is a private manufacturer of computer multimedia products, Audio DACs and ADCs based in Fremont, California with R&D centers in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada and Beijing, China. It was founded by Forrest Mo ...
, an American multimedia technology manufacturer
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Experimental SAGE Subsector
The Experimental Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) Sector (ESS, Experimental SAGE Subsector until planned Sectors/Subsectors were renamed NORAD Regions, Divisions, and Sectors) was a prototype Cold War Air Defense Sector for developing the ...
, a prototype Cold War Air Defense Sector
Computing
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Emacs Speaks Statistics
Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) is an Emacs package for programming in statistical languages. It adds two types of modes to emacs:
# ESS modes for editing statistical languages like R, SAS and Julia; and
# inferior ESS (iESS) modes for intera ...
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Emotion-sensitive software
Emotion-sensitive software (ESS) is software specifically designed to target and monitor emotional response in a human being. Some software measures anger by comparing the pitch of a voice to a regular, or calm, pitch. Another approach is the mea ...
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Extended Service Set, a wireless networking unit
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IBM Enterprise Storage Server
Other uses
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S, the letter
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Central Siberian Yupik language
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Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
, England
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Essen/Mülheim Airport in Germany
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Employee self-service
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Eurest Support Services, a British food services company
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Eternal Subordination of the Son, theological position
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