less meaning
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WLess
- Less or LESS may refer to:
- Less (band), a band from the San Francisco bay area
- Less (stylesheet language), a dynamic stylesheet language
- less (Unix), a Unix utility program
- Acronyms:
- Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), a way of scaling Scrum (software development) in multi-team multi-project environments
- Lunar Escape Systems, a series of proposed emergency spacecraft for the Apollo Program
- Abbreviations:
- Less., the author abbreviation for Christian Friedrich Lessing (1809-1862), German botanist
- VerbSGlessesPRlessingPT, PPlessedSUF-less
- Adjective
- (now archaic except with numbers) comparative form of little: more little; smaller.
- A smaller amount (of); not as much.
- Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
- (proscribed) A smaller number of; fewer.
- (now archaic except with numbers) comparative form of little: more little; smaller.
- Adverb
- To a smaller extent.
- In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
- In lower degree.
- This is a less bad solution than I thought possible.
- To a smaller extent.
- Conjunction
- OBS unless.
- OBS unless.
- Preposition
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- They didn’t think my mum could take over, much less me, whom they referred to as Ang Yew Seng’s zha bor kia (Hokkien for daughter).
- Few people are very patient when they′ve had less down time than Warren Beatty′s todger.
- This study abroad program is a lot less structured than most others I've looked at.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The members’ real innovation is their embrace of a Finnish polkalike genre called humppa, which sounds — well, like it sounds, more or less.
- Generally those with more responsibility outearn those with less.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of less in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary

