gain (or loss)
41gain — gain1 W2S2 [geın] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(get something)¦ 2¦(get gradually)¦ 3¦(advantage)¦ 4¦(increase)¦ 5 gain access/entry/admittance etc (to something) 6 gain an understanding/insight/impression etc 7 gain ground 8 gain time 9¦(clock)¦ …
42loss — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Failure to keep Nouns loss; perdition; forfeiture, forfeit, lapse, detriment, privation, bereavement, deprivation, dispossession, riddance, waste, dissipation, expenditure, leakage; brain drain;… …
43gain — noun see one man’s loss is another man’s gain there’s no great loss without some gain no pain, no gain verb see what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts nothing venture, nothing gain …
44Gain — For other uses, see Gain (disambiguation). In electronics, gain is a measure of the ability of a circuit (often an amplifier) to increase the power or amplitude of a signal from the input to the output. It is usually defined as the mean ratio of… …
45loss — The opposite of gain. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * loss loss [lɒs ǁ lɒːs] noun 1. [countable, uncountable] the fact of no longer having something that you used to have, or having less of it: • loss of earnings through illness ˈjob loss… …
46Loss leader — A loss leader or leader [ [http://www.bartleby.com/61/46/L0084600.html Leader] , The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition , Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.] (also called a key value item in the United Kingdom) is a …
47gain — 01. I ve [gained] a lot of weight over the last year because I haven t been doing much exercise. 02. He was eventually able to find [gainful] employment after working almost the entire year in a crappy little minimum wage job. 03. Today, on the… …
48loss — /laws, los/, n. 1. detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery. 2. something that is lost: The painting was the greatest loss from the robbery. 3. an amount or number lost: The loss of …
49loss — see one man’s loss is another man’s gain there’s no great loss without some gain …
50Loss-of-function — Eine Loss of function Mutation (Funktionsverlustmutation) ist in der Genetik eine Genmutation, bei der das betroffene Gen funktionslos wird. Ist der Funktionsverlust vollständig, spricht man von einem Nullallel oder amorphen Allel. Bleibt ein… …
