What is "ess"

Usage examples of "ess".

Cheat is also an ESS, however, because a population consisting largely of cheats will not be invaded by either grudger or sucker.

Note incidentally that, although a population of cheats may be more likely to go extinct than a population of grudgers, this in no way affects its status as an ESS.

Then she stared at the large poster of Marie Kendall, charming soubrette, and, listlessly lolling, scribbled on the jotter sixteens and capital esses.

The fact was that he could never reconcile himself to the idea that an uneducated Kerl such as Esser could be a member of the Cabinet.

He rode in Cabooses, fought the Roller-Towels, endured the Taunts of Ess, BEss, and TEss who shot the Sody Biscuit, and reclined in the Chamber of Horrors, entirely surrounded by Wall-Paper, but what cared he?

At sunset Sean cooked a pot of maize-meal porridge on a tiny smoker ess fire while Alphonso rigged the aerial and tuned the radio to the Renamo command frequency.

Thon Taddeo had been answering questions about his work with less reticence than usual, no longer worried, apparently, about such controversial subjects as the refrangible property of light, or the ambitious of Thon Esser Shon.

Thon Taddeo had been answering questions about his work with less reticence than usual, no longer worried, apparently, about such controversial subjects as the refrangible property of light, or the ambitious of Thon Esser Shon.

So cheaters are part and parcel of any ESS as long as they stay below a certain percentage of the general population.

At the moment of cutover, while the crossbar had howled out, the ESS had come to life and taken over the thirty thousand lines cut off from the old crossbar switch.

ESS across the nation, from small-capacity switches in rural towns to the very high capacity switches that procESSed long-distance traffic.

She had noticed a pretty striped snake essing through the grass and Little Becky looked like a screecher at snakes.

D'altro canto il clima era caldo, cosicché mi sembrava strano non riuscire a trovare qualche tipo di argilla con la quale foggiare alla bell'e meglio una pentola, farla essiccare al sole, e renderla così abbastanza solida e resistente per poterla maneggiare e usarla come contenitore di sostanze asciutte che richiedessero di esser conservate in questo modo.

Certo, il mio caso era molto doloroso, tuttavia avevo ampio motivo di esser grato al Cielo per non avermi mai fatto mancare il cibo, ed anzi per avermene accordato in abbondanza, e persino di ottima qualità.

Lot's an amb itious man, he'd not dangle after a bastard when there was a true-born princ ess to be had.