Loss

Loss

"loss"' may refer to:

*A negative difference between retail price and cost of production
*An event in which the team or individual in question did not win.
*Loss (baseball), a pitching statistic in baseball
*Attenuation, a reduction in amplitude and intensity of a signal
*In telecommunications, loss is a decrease in signal in a communications system:
**Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignment
**Bridging loss, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission line
**Coupling loss, the loss that occurs when energy is transferred from one circuit, optical device, or medium to another
**Insertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiber
**Path loss, the attenuation undergone by an electromagnetic wave in transit from a transmitter to a receiver
***Free-space path loss, the loss in signal strength that would result if all influences were sufficiently removed having no effect on its propagation
**Reflection loss, a loss which causes energy to be reflected back toward its source
**Return loss, the ratio of the amplitude of the reflected wave to the amplitude of the incident wave
* in laser physics, loss (or background loss, or round-trip loss) may refer to the part of the energy of the optical field, that becomes unusable at each rond-trip in the cavity due to the scattering or absorption.In the arts:
*Loss (film), a 2008 film by Maris Martinsons.
*Joe Loss, the founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra
*"Loss" (album), the debut album of Mull Historical Society
*Loss (comics), a mutant comic book character
*Lord Loss (character), the Demon Lord from Darren Shan's 10 book series "The Demonata"
*"The Loss" (TNG episode), a fourth-season episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation"


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  • loss — n 1: physical, emotional, or esp. economic harm or damage sustained: as a: decrease in value, capital, or amount compare gain b: an amount by which the cost of something (as goods or services) exceeds the selling price compare …   Law dictionary

  • loss — is a generic and relative term. It signifies the act of losing or the thing lost; it is not a word of limited, hard and fast meaning and has been held synonymous with, or equivalent to, damage , damages , deprivation , detriment , injury , and… …   Black's law dictionary

  • loss — is a generic and relative term. It signifies the act of losing or the thing lost; it is not a word of limited, hard and fast meaning and has been held synonymous with, or equivalent to, damage , damages , deprivation , detriment , injury , and… …   Black's law dictionary

  • loss — W1S2 [lɔs US lo:s] n [: Old English; Origin: los destruction ] 1.) [U and C] the fact of no longer having something, or of having less of it than you used to have, or the process by which this happens loss of ▪ The court awarded Ms Dixon £7,000… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • loss — [ lɔs ] noun *** ▸ 1 no longer having something ▸ 2 having less than before ▸ 3 failure to win race etc. ▸ 4 money lost ▸ 5 death of someone ▸ 6 sadness from death/loss ▸ 7 disadvantage from loss ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count or uncount the state of not …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Loss — (l[o^]s; 115), n. [AS. los loss, losing, fr. le[ o]san to lose. [root]127. See {Lose}, v. t.] 1. The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • loss — [lôs, läs] n. [ME los < pp. of losen, lesen, to LOSE] 1. a losing or being lost 2. an instance of this 3. the damage, trouble, disadvantage, deprivation, etc. caused by losing something 4. the person, thing, or amount lost 5. any reduction,… …   English World dictionary

  • loss — (n.) O.E. los loss, destruction, from P.Gmc. *lausa (see LOSE (Cf. lose)). The modern word, however, probably evolved 14c. with a weaker sense, from lost, the original pp. of lose. Phrase at a loss (1590s) originally refers to hounds losing the… …   Etymology dictionary

  • loss — ► NOUN 1) the fact or process of losing something or someone. 2) the feeling of grief after losing a valued person or thing. 3) a person or thing that is badly missed when lost. 4) a defeat in sport. ● at a loss Cf. ↑at a loss …   English terms dictionary

  • løss — sb., en (en jordart), i sms. løss , fx løssaflejring …   Dansk ordbog

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