Loss may refer to:
People with the surname
- Joe Loss (1909–1990), founder of The Joe Loss Orchestra
Arts, entertainment, and media
Music
- Loss (Bass Communion album) (2006)
- Loss (Mull Historical Society album) (2001)
- "Losses", a song by Drake from Dark Lane Demo Tapes (2020)
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Loss (comic), a webcomic strip and internet meme
- Loss (film), a 2008 film by Maris Martinsons
- Lord Loss (character), a character from Darren Shan's The Demonata
- "The Loss", a 1990 episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Grief
- Grief, an emotional response to loss
- Animal loss, grief over the loss of an animal
Mathematics, science, and technology
- Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignment
- Bridging loss, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission line
- Coupling loss, the loss that occurs when energy is transferred from one circuit, optical device, or medium to another
- Insertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiber
- Dielectric loss, a dielectric material's inherent dissipation of electromagnetic energy
- Loss function, in statistics, a function representing the cost associated with an event
- Path 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 propagation
- Return loss, the ratio of the amplitude of the reflected wave to the amplitude of the incident wave
- Round-trip loss in laser physics refers to energy lost due to scattering or absorption
Other uses
- Loss (baseball), a pitching statistic in baseball
- Pure economic loss
See also
- Attenuation, a reduction in amplitude and intensity of a signal
- Lose (disambiguation)
- Stop loss (disambiguation)