Swiss cheese may refer to:
Cheese
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Swiss cheeses and dairy products
Switzerland has a strong and ancestral dairy farming and cheesemaking tradition. The breeding of cattle, sheep and goats for milk is attested in the Neolithic period and, since Antiquity, cheese has been exported from the Alpine regions. The rugg ...
(from Switzerland)
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List of Swiss cheeses
This is a list of the varieties of traditional cheeses made in Switzerland. Switzerland produces over 475 varieties of cheese, a milk-based food produced in a large range of flavors, textures, and forms. Cow's milk is used in about 99 percent of ...
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Swiss-type cheeses
Swiss-type cheeses, also known as Alpine cheeses, are a group of hard or semi-hard cheeses with a distinct character, whose origins lie in the Alps of Europe, although they are now eaten and imitated in most cheesemaking parts of the world. Their ...
or Alpine cheeses, a class of cooked pressed cheeses now made in many countries
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Swiss cheese (North America)
The term "Swiss cheese" is one used of any variety of cheese that resembles Emmental cheese, a yellow, medium-hard cheese that originated in the area around Emmental, Switzerland. It is classified as a Swiss-type or Alpine cheese. The term ...
, any of several related varieties of cheese that resemble Emmentaler
Biology
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Swiss cheese cartilage dysplasia or Kniest dysplasia, a form of dwarfism
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Swiss cheese plant (disambiguation)
Mathematics and physics
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Swiss cheese (mathematics), subset of the complex plane with circular holes
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Swiss cheese features
Swiss cheese features (SCFs) are curious pits in the south polar ice cap of Mars ( Mare Australe quadrangle) named from their similarity to the holes in Swiss cheese. They were first seen in 2000 using Mars Orbiter Camera imagery.
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, pits in the south polar ice cap of Mars
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Swiss cheese model
The Swiss cheese model of accident causation is a model used in Risk analysis (engineering), risk analysis and risk management. It likens human systems to multiple slices of Swiss cheese (North America), Swiss cheese, which have randomly placed an ...
, of accident causation, used in risk analysis and risk management
See also
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Swiss Cheese Union
The Swiss Cheese Union (, ) was a marketing and trading organization in Switzerland, which served as a cartel to control cheese production from 1914 to 1999. To this end, the Swiss Cheese Union mandated production be limited to only a few varietie ...
, Swiss marketing body, up to 1999
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