Tess

1. 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.

   1999, Ed McBain, The Big Bad City, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139

plural Tesses

1. A surname from German.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism 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.

   2023 November 29, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers discover nearby six-planet solar system with ‘pristine configuration’”, in CNN