BUSS

v. kiss

Buss may relate of any of these:an alternate (incorrect) spelling of bus, used mainly in the case of an electrical bus, also rarely for a computer busBuss (also called a herring buss), a small fishing boat with two mastsFrances Buss, a pioneer of women's education in BritainBuss Island, an imaginary island that was believed to lie in the north AtlanticBUSS, the Birmingham University Speleological Societya word meaning to kiss.
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Noun
1. the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof)
(synonym) kiss, osculation
(hypernym) touch, touching
(hyponym) smack, smooch
(derivation) kiss, osculate
Verb
1. touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room"
(synonym) kiss, osculate
(hypernym) touch
(hyponym) smack, peck
(derivation) kiss, osculation

(v. t.)
To kiss; esp. to kiss with a smack, or rudely.
  

(n.)
A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
  

(n.)
A kiss; a rude or playful kiss; a smack.
  

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<architecture> One of the sets of conductors (wires, PCB tracks or connections in an integrated circuit) connecting the various functional units in a computer. There are busses both within the CPU and connecting it to external memory and peripheral devices. The data bus, address bus and control signals, despite their names, really constitute a single bus since each is useless without the others.
The width of the data bus, i.e. the number of parallel connectors, and its clock rate determine its data rate (the number of bytes per second which it can carry). This is one of the factors limiting a computer's performance. Most current microprocessors have 32-bit busses both internally and externally. 100 or 133 megahertz bus clock rates are common. The bus clock is typically slower than the processor clock.
Some processors have internal busses which are wider than their external busses (usually twice the width) since the width of the internal bus affects the speed of all operations and has less effect on the overall system cost than the width of the external bus.
Various bus designs have been used in the PC, including ISA, EISA, Micro Channel, VL-bus and PCI. Other peripheral busses are NuBus, TURBOchannel, VMEbus, MULTIBUS and STD bus.
Some networks are implemented as a bus at the physical layer, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10 (or later 100) megabits per second.
The term is almost certainly derived from the electrical engineering term "bus bar" - a substantial, rigid power supply conductor to which several connections are made. This was once written "'bus bar" as it was a contraction of "omnibus bar" - a connection bar "for all", by analogy with the passenger omnibus - a conveyance "for all".
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(2000-03-20)