- First axis: anterior means toward the nose or front; posterior means toward the tail or back. Second axis: dorsal is toward the surface of the back or top of the head (as in dorsal fin); ventral indicates the surface of the chest or bottom of the head. - Third axis: medial is toward the midline of the body; lateral indicates outside or away from the midline. 3.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: BLISS. BLISS is a system programming language developed at Carnegie Mellon University by W. A. Wulf, D. B. Russell, and A. N. Habermann around 1970. It was perhaps the best known systems programming language right up until C made its debut a few years later.
bliss O.E. bliÃ°s bliss, merriment, happiness, grace, favor, from P.Gmc. *blithsjo, from *blithiz gentle, kind + *-tjo noun suffix. Associated with blithe (q.v.). But this bliss could not be; so we proceeded to make the best of what we had. Well, well, more than one friend has told me I'd wake from my dream of bliss some day. But Leander didn't hear himâhis soul hed fled from its mortal tenement 'nd hed soared rejoicin' to realms uv everlastin' bliss.