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SSE

SSE

1 6.7
The compass direction between south and southeast at 157.5 degrees
  • noun
translation icon : SSE
  • That's a mouthful, so let's just say SSE from now on, okay?
  • winds SSE
  • SSE shares

Examples

  • Abbreviations: FCE, Foundation for Conscious Evolution; HBES, Human Behavior and Evolution Society; NABT, National Association of Biology Teachers; SSE, Society for the Study of Evolution.

    Academic text (2006)

  • At Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, it was raining with overcast skies, winds SSE at 35 gusting to 45 mph.

    Blog text (1)

  • Commence SSE.

    Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

  • Commence SSE.

    Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

  • Compare an '88 Bonneville SSE (love it or hate it) to the B-body Bonneville Brougham we featured a few days ago.

    Blog text (20)

  • The survey demonstrated that members of the HBES, NABT, and SSE disagreed (on average) that the statement "Progress typifies the evolution of life on Earth" is empirically supported (Figure 2, Table 1).

    Academic text (2006)

  • SSE members rejected this statement most strongly, whereas FCE members strikingly agreed that evolution is progressive. Respondents evaluated the potential social benefit of this statement in much the same way that they evaluated its empirical support, though ratings for social benefit were slightly higher.

    Academic text (2006)

  • The SSE is the world's largest organization of evolutionary science, comprising 2,900 members in 50 countries who seek to promote "the study of organic evolution and the integration of the various fields of science concerned with evolution" (http: **41;3090;TOOLONG).

    Academic text (2006)

  • Scira's owners, Norway's Statoil and Statkraft, joined SSE and RWE to form the Forewind consortium, which in 2010 won Dogger Bank, the largest UK Round 3 zone awarded.

    Blog text (15)

  • The forecast predicts winds coming from the SSE at 15 mph during the afternoon.

Synonyms

south-southeast
vsSSE
1 4.7

A compass point halfway between south and southeast

is the abbreviation used for that exact compass point
sou'-sou'-east
vsSSE
  • Archaic
9.9

The compass direction halfway between south and southeast

is the modern abbreviation rather than the older written form
southeast by south
vsSSE
7.5

A compass direction slightly south of southeast, at 157.5 degrees from north

is the standard short form for that same compass bearing

Surface Forms

SSE singular
SSEs plural

Etymology

SSE is short for south-southeast, the compass point exactly between 'south' and 'southeast'. So think of SSE as the direction you get when you move a little from 'south' toward 'southeast', which is why it marks the 157.5° point on a compass.