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Loss may refer to:
- Pure economic loss
- 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
- Return loss, the ratio of the amplitude of the reflected wave to the amplitude of the incident wave
- Round-trip loss in laser physics refers to energy lost due to scattering or absorption
- Loss function, in statistics, a function representing the cost associated with an event
Arts
- Loss (film), a 2008 film by Maris Martinsons
- Joe Loss (1909–1990), founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra
- Loss (Mull Historical Society album), 2001
- Loss (Bass Communion album), 2006
- Loss (comics), a mutant comic book character
- Lord Loss (character), the Demon Lord from Darren Shan's 10 book series The Demonata
- "The Loss", a 1990 fourth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
See also
- Lose (disambiguation)
- Stop loss (disambiguation)
- Grief, an emotional response to loss
- Animal loss, grief over the loss of an animal
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