Loss

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Loss may refer to:

A negative difference between retail price and cost of production
- Loss leader a deliberate commercial loss made in the expectation of recouping it by profitable sales of other lines
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
- 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

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
"LOSE" or "L.O.S.E.", the abbreviation of League of Super Evil