Words starting with loss
4 letter words starting with loss
- loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- loss adjuster — A loss adjuster is someone who is employed by an insurance company to decide how much money should be paid to a person making a claim.
- loss function — (in decision theory) a function that expresses the loss incurred when a decision is made in terms of various factors.
- loss leader — 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 leader (def 4).
- loss on sale — A loss on sale is the amount of money that is lost by a company when selling a non-inventory asset for more than its value.
5 letter words starting with loss
- lossy — (of a material or transmission line) causing appreciable loss or dissipation of energy.
- lossy audio compression — (audio, compression) Any audio compression algorithm which does not retain every bit of data but only reproduces a signal that sounds more or less like the original. Examples are MP1, MP2, MP3, AAC.
6 letter words starting with loss
- losses — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
7 letter words starting with loss
- lossage — (jargon) /los'*j/ The result of a bug or malfunction. This is a mass or collective noun. "What a loss!" and "What lossage!" are nearly synonymous. The former is slightly more particular to the speaker's present circumstances; the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is currently a victim. Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.
- lossier — Comparative form of lossy.
- lossily — In a lossy way.
8 letter words starting with loss
- lossiest — Superlative form of lossy.
- lossless — Having or involving no dissipation of electrical or electromagnetic energy.
- 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 are stored as coefficients of a predictor, the remaining signal is coded by Rice coding, Huffman coding or arithmetic coding.
- lossless predictive audio compression — (audio, compression) (LPAC) A lossless audio compression algorithm with compression ratios from 1.5 to 4, depending on the input. Software is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Solaris. LPAC files (*.pac) can be played with a Winamp plug-in.
9 letter words starting with loss
- lossmaker — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
10 letter words starting with loss
- lossmakers — Plural form of lossmaker.
- lossmaking — a business that consistently operates at a loss.
19 letter words starting with loss
- loss-of-containment — Loss-of-containment happens when a fluid which is usually contained somewhere escapes from that place.
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