Dictionary - Definition of BESS

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"Bess" is a common misspelling or typo for: boss, beds, bases, bass, bees, bless, bets, Hess, begs, ness, bes, buss, bests, Bessy.

Date "Bess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references)

Specialty Definition: BESS

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	1: Biomedical Experiment Support Satellite. (references)
	2: Biological Experiment Scientific Satellite. (references)
Health	Part B Extract & Summary System (nee BMAD). (references)
Literature	Bess Good Queen Bess. Queen Elizabeth (1533, 1558-1603). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	1: BESS, or BETTY. A small instrument used by house-breakers to force open doors. Bring bess and glym; bring the instrument to force the door, and the dark lantern. Small flasks, like those for Florence wine, are also called betties. 2: BESS. See BROWN BESS. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Wikipedic	Bess is a brand of censorware made by Secure Computing Corporation, which acquired maker N2H2 in 2003; it is usually used in libraries and schools. The main purpose of the system is as an internet filter, blocking minors using the public computers from accessing web content deemed inappropriate by the Bess manufacturers or local administration. The system is not installed locally (on each individual computer workstation), but installs on the server between the users and the open internet. This generally makes it harder to bypass - though it is not uncommon for students with more extensive computer knowledge to attempt to bypass the system, with varying success. (references)
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Common Expressions: BESS

Expressions	Definition
BESS (experiment)	BESS is a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon. BESS stands for Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer. It is in fact a series of experiments that started in 1993, and its current incarnation, BESS-Polar, was circling the Antarctic from December 13 to December 21, 2004, for a total of 8 days 17 hours and 2 minutes. (references)
Bess Eaton	Bess Eaton or Bess Eaton Donut Flour Company Inc., was a small chain of coffee shops based in southern New England, often serving donuts, bagels, and muffins. Founded in 1953, Bess Eaton was known for its unique use of scripture on its product packaging. The corporate headquarters were located in Westerly, Rhode Island with up to 56 retail shops spread between Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut. At one time, it was Rhode Island's seventh largest private employer of 750 workers. The company sold its retail division in mid-2004 to Tim Hortons in conjunction with closing its production facility and corporate headquarters. (references)
Bess Press	Bess Press is a Hawaii-based publisher that issues various books on Hawaiian and Pacific history and culture. It was founded by Benjamin "Buddy" Bess, who came to Hawaii in 1976 from New York. (references)
Bess Streeter Aldrich	Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954) was an American author. (references)
Bess Truman	Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman (February 13, 1885 - October 18, 1982), often known as "Bess Truman", was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. (references)
Bouncing Bess	Plant of European origin having pink or white flowers and leaves yielding a detergent when bruised. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Brown Bess	The old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
Brown Bess	Brown Bess is a nickname of unknown provenance for the British Army's Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives. This musket was used throughout much of the era of the expansion of the British Empire and acquired symbolic importance as well as its physical importance. It was in use for over a hundred years with many incremental changes in its basic design. These versions include the Long Land Pattern, Short Land Pattern, India Pattern, New Land Pattern Musket, Sea Service Musket and others. (references)
Porgy and Bess discography	Porgy and Bess, the opera by George Gershwin, has been recorded by a variety of artists since it was completed in 1935, including renditions by jazz instrumentalists and scat singers, in addition to operatic treatments. (references)
Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess	Decca Presents Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess consists of two volumes of records, the first from 1940 and the next from 1942. (references)
The Complete Porgy and Bess	This 1956 recording based on George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess was the second "complete" recording of the opera after the 1951 version recorded several years earlier, and the first recording of the work to feature jazz singers and musicians instead of operatic singers and a classical orchestra. (references)
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Specialty Expressions: BESS

Expressions	Domain	Definition
Bess o' Bedlam	Literature	1: A female lunatic vagrant. Bedlam is a common name for a madhouse, and Bess is a national name for a woman, especially of the lower order. The male lunatic is a Tom o' Bedlam. 2: Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, to whose charge, in 1572, Mary Queen of Scots was committed. The countess treated the captive queen with great harshness, being jealous of the earl her husband. Bess of Hardwicke married four times: Alexander Barley (when she was only fourteen years of age); William Cavendish; Sir William St. Loe, Captain of Queen Elizabeth's Guard; and lastly, George, Earl of Shrewsbury. She built Hardwicke Hall, and founded the wealth and dignity of the Cavendish family. 3: Means brown barrel. The barrels were browned to keep them from rusting. (Dutch, bus, a gun-barrel; Low German, bsse; Swedish, byssa. Our arquebus, blunderbuss.) In 1808 a process of browning was introduced, but this has, of course, nothing to do with the distinctive epithet. Probably Bess is a companion word to Bill. (See below.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Brown Bess	Slang in 1811	BROWN BESS. A soldier's firelock. To hug brown Bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a private soldier. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Extended Definition: BESS

BESS

"BESS" can also refer to a degree in Business, Economics and Social Science.

BESS is a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon. BESS stands for Balloon-borne Experiment with Superconducting Spectrometer. It is in fact a series of experiments that started in 1993, and its current incarnation, BESS-Polar, was circling the Antarctic from December 13 to December 21, 2004, for a total of 8 days 17 hours and 2 minutes. This joint Japanese and American project is supported by the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics (LHEA) at NASA's GSFC and the KEK.

Overview

The mission of this experiment is to detect antiparticles in the cosmic radiation at high altitudes. It is therefore designed to be carried aloft by balloon. The central detection device is a magnetic spectrometer, that is used to identify all electrically charged particles crossing its main detection aperture. Mission members are working on improving the sensitivity and precision of this system with each new launch.

Scientific goals

Theories of the beginning of the Universe are based on the currently-known laws of particle physics, where matter is created from energy in such a way that equal amounts of particles and antiparticles are produced. If this is so, then an amount of antimatter equal to the amount of currently visible matter must exist -- though it should be noted that there is an equal possibility the bulk of the antimatter may have been annihilated due to the mechanism of CP violation. The aim of BESS therefore is to quantify the amount of antiparticles in the local cosmos and so help to decide between these alternatives.

Up to this point, only antiprotons have been detected, which can be produced via collisions of the cosmic radiation with atoms in the thin atmosphere above the balloon. Therefore, two strategies are employed to obtain the value for the flux of antiparticles from outer space:

Measure the properties of the antiproton flux precisely and look for deviations from the expected behavior of antiprotons created in the atmosphere.
Look for larger antinuclei, for instance antihelium, that cannot be produced by collisions.

Additionally, the basic properties of standard particle fluxes will be measured with high precision.

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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "BESS". Image Credit.
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Topics by Level of Interest: BESS
Topics sorted by level of Interest	Level (1=low, 600=high)	Topics sorted Alphabetically	Level (1=low, 600=high)
Porgy and Bess	130	BESS	16
Brown Bess	24	Bess (content-control software)	7
Bess Marvin	21	Bess (Ga'Hoole)	4
Bess of Hardwick	21	Bess Armstrong	7
Bess Truman	19	Bess Eaton	6
Young Bess	16	Bess Flowers	6
BESS	16	Bess Houdini	8
Georges Bess	14	Bess Lindstrom	7
Porgy and Bess (film)	12	Bess Marvin	21
Porgy and Bess (Armstrong & Fitzgerald album)	12	Bess Meredyth	6
Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess	11	Bess Motta	5
The Complete Porgy and Bess	10	Bess Moyer	2
Typhoon Bess (1982)	10	Bess Myerson	8
Mount Queen Bess	9	Bess of Hardwick	21
Typhoon Bess (1974)	9	Bess Press	3
Gallant Bess	9	Bess Streeter Aldrich	5
Bess Houdini	8	Bess Truman	19
Porgy and Bess (2006)	8	Brown Bess	24
Porgy and Bess (Glyndebourne album)	8	Daniel Bess	5
Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)	8	Davone Bess	6
Bess Myerson	8	Forrest Bess	3
Porgy and Bess discography	8	Gallant Bess	9
Highlights from Porgy and Bess	8	Gene Bess	4
Porgy and Bess (1951 album)	8	Georges Bess	14
Bess (content-control software)	7	Gordon Bess	4
Bess Lindstrom	7	Highlights from Porgy and Bess	8
Porgy and Bess (1950 album)	7	Mount Queen Bess	9
Bess Armstrong	7	Porgy and Bess	130
Bess Eaton	6	Porgy and Bess (1950 album)	7
Davone Bess	6	Porgy and Bess (1951 album)	8
Bess Meredyth	6	Porgy and Bess (2006)	8
Rachel bess	6	Porgy and Bess (Armstrong & Fitzgerald album)	12
Bess Flowers	6	Porgy and Bess (film)	12
Bess Streeter Aldrich	5	Porgy and Bess (Glyndebourne album)	8
Daniel Bess	5	Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)	8
Bess Motta	5	Porgy and Bess discography	8
Rufus Bess	5	Rachel bess	6
Bess (Ga'Hoole)	4	Rufus Bess	5
Gordon Bess	4	Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess	11
Gene Bess	4	The Complete Porgy and Bess	10
Forrest Bess	3	Tropical Storm Bess	3
Tropical Storm Bess	3	Typhoon Bess (1974)	9
Bess Press	3	Typhoon Bess (1982)	10
Bess Moyer	2	Young Bess	16
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Translations: BESS

Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Bohemian	Bětuška (Betty, Bess), Běta (Bess). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Central Tai	ชื่อ (name, first name, appellation, bess, designation). Additional references: Central Tai, Thailand, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina	Bětuška (Betty, Bess), Běta (Bess). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified	贝丝 (Bess, beth). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional	貝絲 (Bess, beth). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech	Bětuška (Betty, Bess), Běta (Bess). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch	Bess (bess). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Français	Lisette (bess, Lizeth), Babette (Bess). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
French	Lisette (bess, Lizeth), Babette (Bess). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
German	Bess (bess). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal	여자 이름 (bobby, Charlotte, Athene, Judy, Eleanor), 비누패랭이꽃 (Bess bouncing, bet bouncing). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua	여자 이름 (bobby, Charlotte, Athene, Judy, Eleanor), 비누패랭이꽃 (Bess bouncing, bet bouncing). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Hebrew	פורגי ובס (Porgy and Bess). Additional references: Hebrew, Israel, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
High German	Bess (bess). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch	Bess (bess). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian	Bettina (bess, bessie, Bessy, Betsy, betty), valeriana rossa (bouncing Bess), centranto (bouncing Bess, red valerian). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Ivrit	פורגי ובס (Porgy and Bess). Additional references: Ivrit, Israel, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean	여자 이름 (bobby, Charlotte, Athene, Judy, Eleanor), 비누패랭이꽃 (Bess bouncing, bet bouncing). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian	бесс (bess), of Elisabeth Бесс (Bess). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Russian (transliteration)	bess (bess), of Elisabeth bess (Bess). Additional references: Russian, Russia, China, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki	бесс (bess), of Elisabeth Бесс (Bess). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Russki (transliteration)	bess (bess), of Elisabeth bess (Bess). Additional references: Russki, Russia, China, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Siamese	ชื่อ (name, first name, appellation, bess, designation). Additional references: Siamese, Thailand, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Standard Thai	ชื่อ (name, first name, appellation, bess, designation). Additional references: Standard Thai, Thailand, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Thai	ชื่อ (name, first name, appellation, bess, designation). Additional references: Thai, Thailand, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
Thaiklang	ชื่อ (name, first name, appellation, bess, designation). Additional references: Thaiklang, Thailand, bess. (volunteer & more translations)
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Language	Translations for “bess” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag	Bathagess (Bess). Additional references: Athag, bess. (volunteer)
Double Dutch	Bagess (Bess). Additional references: Double Dutch, bess. (volunteer)
Leet	6&$$ (Bess). Additional references: Leet, bess. (volunteer)
Oppish	Bopess (Bess). Additional references: Oppish, bess. (volunteer)
Pig Latin	essbay (bess). Additional references: Pig Latin, bess. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi	Bubess (Bess). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, bess. (volunteer)
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