Swiss cheese

Swiss cheese
Any cheese which resembles Emmental, especially ones with holes.

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  • Swiss cheese — Swiss cheeses N VAR Swiss cheese is hard cheese with holes in it …   English dictionary

  • Swiss cheese — or Swiss n. [so named because orig. made in Switzerland] [sometimes s c ] a white or pale yellow, hard cheese with many large holes …   English World dictionary

  • Swiss cheese — noun count or uncount a type of cheese with a lot of holes in it …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Swiss cheese — Swiss′ cheese′ n. coo a firm, pale yellow cheese typically made from cow s milk and having many holes • Etymology: 1815–25 …   From formal English to slang

  • Swiss cheese — This article describes a kind of cheese produced primarily in Canada and the United States. In many countries, the term Swiss is a Geographical indication and is legally restricted to items produced in Switzerland. For cheeses produced in… …   Wikipedia

  • Swiss cheese — UK / US noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms Swiss cheese : singular Swiss cheese plural Swiss cheeses a type of cheese with a lot of holes in it …   English dictionary

  • Swiss cheese (disambiguation) — Swiss cheese is the name of several types of cheese, some of which have holes in them. It may also refer to: * Swiss cheese (mathematics), a compact subset of the complex plane * Swiss Cheese model, a model of accident causation * Swiss Cheese… …   Wikipedia

  • Swiss cheese features — (SCFs) are curious pits in the south polar ice cap of Mars and were first identified in 2000 using Mars Orbiter Camera imagery. [cite journal| last=Thomas | coauthors=et al.| journal=Science| year=2000] They are typically a few hundred meters… …   Wikipedia

  • Swiss Cheese model — The Swiss Cheese model of accident causation is a model used in the risk analysis and risk management of human systems. It likens human systems to multiple slices of Swiss cheese, stacked together, side by side. It was originally propounded by… …   Wikipedia

  • Swiss Cheese Union — The Swiss Cheese Union (Schweizer Käseunion AG) was a cartel in Switzerland engaged in the promotion of cheese and cheese products from Switzerland.The Swiss Cheese Union promoted subjective and objective quality of cheese, but also acted as a… …   Wikipedia

  • Swiss cheese (mathematics) — In mathematics, a Swiss cheese is a compact subset of the complex plane obtained by removing from a closed disc some countable union of open discs. More generally, a Swiss cheese may be all or part of Euclidean space R n ndash; or of an even more …   Wikipedia

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