- 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 is a state of complete happiness or joy. Marriage is often associated with this joyous feeling: people who are married and still in love are described as living in wedded bliss. Another common association is heaven or paradise, as in eternal bliss. Bliss is from Middle English blisse, from Old English bliss, blÄ«ths. The final -s in this Old English word is actually a suffix and the word itself is related to blÄ«the, the source of modern English blithe, which means happy.