Loss

Loss may refer to:

People with the surname
  • Joe Loss (1909–1990), founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
  • Loss (comic), a webcomic strip and internet meme
  • Loss (film), a 2008 film by Maris Martinsons
  • Lord Loss (character), a character from Darren Shan's The Demonata
  • "The Loss", a 1990 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Grief
  • Grief, an emotional response to loss

Mathematics, science, and technology
  • 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
  • Loss function, in statistics, a function representing the cost associated with an event
  • 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

Other uses
gollark: They should stop having that.
gollark: Seatbelts are a bad analogy for these things because seatbelts *are* only a safety thing for the person wearing them.
gollark: I mean, better than the perfect* and flawless** UK response, apparently.
gollark: According to this, Sweden didn't actually do hugely well.
gollark: Here is a clear* and readable** graph.

See also
  • Attenuation, a reduction in amplitude and intensity of a signal
  • Lose (disambiguation)
  • Stop loss (disambiguation)
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