tess
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
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/tɛs/
Definition of tess
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
name
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A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
“Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.”
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name
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A diminutive of the female given name Teresa.
“Cynthia and Melinda, reduced to Cindy and Mindy, as Carella had dreaded would happen from the moment she named them. Her older daughter had fared better. Tess, modern and sleek for Teresa, which conjured up cobblestoned streets in a mountain village in Potenza.”
- A surname from German.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, a planned space telescope for NASA's Explorers program.
“The dedicated time Cheops spent observing the star helped astronomers iron out the mixed signals from the TESS data to determine how many planets were crossing in front of the star and the resonance of their orbits.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Tess, a variant of Tesch.
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