SSE

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A form of south-southeast — The compass point halfway between southeast and south; specifically at a bearing of 157.5°.

Less commonScrabble 3

Meanings

nounSSE (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of south-southeast.
adjectiveSSE (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of south-southeast.
adverbSSE (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparableInitialism of south-southeast.
proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Streaming SIMD Extensions, an extension to the x86 CPU instruction set architecture.
  2. abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of Standard Scottish English/Scottish Standard English.
  3. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Server-sent events, a technique for pushing events from HTTP server to client, specified in HTML5.

    WebSockets is the optimal transport, but other techniques like Server-Sent Events (SSE) and Long Polling are used when other options aren't available. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/azure-signalr/signalr-overview

    2024, What is Azure SignalR Service?, Microsoft
    1 more example

    2012, Django push: Using Server-Sent Events and WebSocket with Django, Curella. https://web.archive.org/web/20121115183325/http://curella.org/blog/django-push-using-server-sent-events-and-websocket/ There are currently a few alternative technologies for pushing events to the browser: Server-Sent Events (SSE) and WebSocket. SSEs are a simpler protocol and are easier to implement, but they provide communication only in one direction

  4. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Secure site exploitation, the process of gaining information from a location.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe compass point midway between south and southeast

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Hungarian DDK
  • DDKinitialism of south-southeast
Portuguese SSE
  • SSEinitialism of south-southeast

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Cite this entry
APA

SSE. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SSE

MLA

“SSE.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SSE. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “SSE,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/SSE.

Source: SSE on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.