Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation south-southwest
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- noun Abbreviation of
south-southwest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the compass point midway between south and southwest
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Seaspan's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSW".
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Seaspan's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSW".
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Seaspan's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSW".
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Seaspan's common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SSW".
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To one side is revealed an immense spread of water with its islands and rock-covered shores, white villages, fishermen's huts, the prison building, haciendas, fertile shores covered in maize and chickpea fields, large herds of cattle grazing on the plains, streams shaded by willows and Cinerarias and the snow-capped summit of Colima volcano, which stands out from the mountain range to the SSW.
Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009
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To one side is revealed an immense spread of water with its islands and rock-covered shores, white villages, fishermen's huts, the prison building, haciendas, fertile shores covered in maize and chickpea fields, large herds of cattle grazing on the plains, streams shaded by willows and Cinerarias and the snow-capped summit of Colima volcano, which stands out from the mountain range to the SSW.
Did you know? The first scientific account of Lake Chapala comes from 1839 2009
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If the shuttle Endeavour meets its scheduled launch time of 20:47 BST on the 29th, there may be a chance for spacewatchers in southern Britain to spot it less than 20 minutes later as it crosses the brightly twilit SSW sky as seen from S England.
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I am shooting E to W, so I almost always have a gulf wind quartering out of the SSW at 5-15 mph.
What is the best cartridge for long range hunting? For deer through elk size game. 2009
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In fact, we probably need a telescope and a decent chart just to glimpse it near the galaxy's SSW fringe.
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The night begins, though, with Venus as a brilliant mag -4.0 evening star in the SSW, its altitude at sunset increasing from 16° to 28° during January so that by the month's end it sets in the W almost four hours after sunset.
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