[laws, los] /lɔs, lɒs/
detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get:
to bear the loss of a robbery.
something that is lost:
The painting was the greatest loss from the robbery.
an amount or number lost:
The loss of life increased each day.
the state of being deprived of or of being without something that one has had:
the loss of old friends.
death, or the fact of being dead:
to mourn the loss of a grandparent.
the accidental or inadvertent losing of something dropped, misplaced, stolen, etc.:
to discover the loss of a document.
a losing by defeat; failure to win:
the loss of a bet.
failure to make good use of something, as time; waste.
failure to preserve or maintain:
loss of engine speed at high altitudes.
destruction or ruin:
the loss of a ship by fire.
a thing or a number of related things that are lost or destroyed to some extent:
Most buildings in the burned district were a total loss.
Insurance. occurrence of an event, as death or damage of property, for which the insurer makes indemnity under the terms of a policy.
Electricity. a measure of the power lost in a system, as by conversion to heat, expressed as a relation between power input and power output, as the ratio of or difference between the two quantities.
at a loss,
the act or an instance of losing
the disadvantage or deprivation resulting from losing: a loss of reputation
the person, thing, or amount lost: a large loss
(pl) military personnel lost by death or capture
(sometimes pl) the amount by which the costs of a business transaction or operation exceed its revenue
a measure of the power lost in an electrical system expressed as the ratio of or difference between the input power and the output power
at a loss
Old English los “loss, destruction,” from Proto-Germanic *lausa- (see lose). The modern word, however, probably evolved 14c. with a weaker sense, from lost, the original past participle of lose. Phrase at a loss (1590s) originally refers to hounds losing the scent. To cut (one’s) losses is from 1885, originally in finance.
cut one’s losses
noun 1. (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
noun 1. a popular article that is sold at a very low price or at a loss for the purpose of attracting customers to a retail store. Compare (def 4). noun 1. an article offered below cost in the hope that customers attracted by it will buy other goods
/ˈlɒslɪs/ adjective 1. (of a dielectric material, transmission line, etc) designed to have no attenuation Compare lossy algorithm, compression A term describing a data compression algorithm which retains all the information in the data, allowing it to be recovered perfectly by decompression. Unix compress and GNU gzip perform lossless compression. Opposite: lossy. (1995-03-29)
- Lossless audio compression
audio, compression Any kind of audio compression in which the original signal and the decoded signal are bitwise identical. Lossless audio compression algorithms are usually based on a data compression algorithm like PKzip or gzip but specialized for PCM audio data. The signal is divided into predictable tonal components and unpredictable noisy components. Tonal components […]