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loss 1. Electronics 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 2. at a loss at less than the cost of buying, producing, or maintaining (something) loss [lȯs] (communications) (engineering) Power that is dissipated in a device or system without doing useful work. Also known as internal loss.
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| It worried him considerably, but he felt that the only course was to hold on: in his circumstances the loss was too great for him to pocket. They continued their hostilities in this manner until the fifteenth of April, 1777, when they attacked Boonsborough with a party of above one hundred in number, killed one man, and wounded four--Their loss in this attack was not certainly known to us. But while I realised all this, and, with a veritable aching of the heart at the loss of her, felt a curious satisfaction at the turn of events, still my own psychology became all the more a puzzle to me, and I asked myself, with some impatience, what I would be at, and what it was I really wanted. |
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