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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 linesAn event in which the team or individual in question did not winLoss (baseball), a pitching statistic in baseballAttenuation, a reduction in amplitude and intensity of a signalIn telecommunications, loss is a decrease in signal in a communications system: Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignmentBridging loss, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission lineCoupling loss, the loss that occurs when energy is transferred from one circuit, optical device, or medium to anotherInsertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiberPath 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 propagationReturn loss, the ratio of the amplitude of the reflected wave to the amplitude of the incident waveRound-trip loss in laser physics refers to energy lost due to scattering or absorptionLoss function, in statistics, a function representing the cost associated with an event