gain
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6.9
- noun
- /ɡeɪn/
- Specialized
:
ganancia
- Using a multiple-baseline design across groups of participants, they observed gains in oral and written retells for all participants.
- dB gain
- low gain
- channel gain
These energies never appear in the energy gain that is normally quoted.
- These energies never appear in the energy gain that is normally quoted.
- You can actually turn down the gain on your router if you want less coverage, that's a thing.
- You have the first undulator corresponding to one gain length.
Examples
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Whenever you sell investment property, you generally have to pay tax on the gain from the sale.
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The oxygen level in her blood was low, and her weight gain was slow.
Fiction book (1998) -
First of all, the capital gains tax rate is much lower in the United States than in Canada.
Academic text (1999) -
Results indicated significant differences in both knowledge gain and attitudes of students after exposure.
Academic text (1999) -
You say, well, that's the gain from input J to output I.
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Harris and colleagues have reported substantial gains in the intellectual functioning of children in the Rutgers Program.
Academic text (1999) -
The CER group also showed greater gain than the control group on content knowledge (d = 0.74).
Academic text (2011) -
Knowing whether high versus low levels of fidelity promote greater academic gains would be beneficial in informing practice.
Academic text (2013) -
Twenty-three studies attempted to find a relationship between visual-motor training and measured gains in academic functioning.
Academic text (2011) -
The company reported a substantial increase in gain from its latest advertising campaign.
Synonyms
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1.0
The extra amount added to something to make it larger
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5.3
Making an electric signal stronger, for example a sound or radio signal
Idioms
To become larger and hard to control as it spreads beyond where it started
Compounds
- Specialized
140
5.4
An increase in value when you sell something for more than you paid
- Specialized
1
9.1
How much output an amplifier sends back to its input, affecting how steady it is
How Strong
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gain in electronics and audio follows the simple idea of 'increase' and means how much a signal is made bigger. So technical gain is the amount a signal grows from input to output.