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Gain
Gain Gain (g[=a]n), n. [Cf. W. gan a mortise.] (Arch.)
A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist,
or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive
the end of the floor beam.
GainGain Gain, a. [OE. gein, gain, good, near, quick; cf. Icel.
gegn ready, serviceable, and gegn, adv., against, opposite.
Cf. Ahain.]
Convenient; suitable; direct; near; handy; dexterous; easy;
profitable; cheap; respectable. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] GainGain Gain (g[=a]n), n. [OE. gain, gein, ga[yogh]hen, gain,
advantage, Icel. gagn; akin to Sw. gagn, Dan. gavn, cf. Goth.
gageigan to gain. The word was prob. influenced by F. gain
gain, OF. gaain. Cf. Gain, v. t.]
1. That which is gained, obtained, or acquired, as increase,
profit, advantage, or benefit; -- opposed to loss.
But what things were gain to me, those I counted
loss for Christ. --Phil. iii.
7.
Godliness with contentment is great gain. --1 Tim.
vi. 6.
Every one shall share in the gains. --Shak.
2. The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable
possessions; acquisition; accumulation. ``The lust of
gain.' --Tennyson. GainGain Gain, v. i.
To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to
grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to
make progress; as, the sick man gains daily.
Thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbors by
extortion. --Ezek. xxii.
12.
Gaining twist, in rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves,
which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle.
To gain on or upon.
(a) To encroach on; as, the ocean gains on the land.
(b) To obtain influence with.
(c) To win ground upon; to move faster than, as in a race or
contest.
(d) To get the better of; to have the advantage of.
The English have not only gained upon the Venetians
in the Levant, but have their cloth in Venice
itself. --Addison.
My good behavior had so far gained on the emperor,
that I began to conceive hopes of liberty. --Swift.
Meaning of Gain from wikipedia
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gain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Gain or
GAIN may
refer to:
Gain (electronics), an
electronics and
signal processing term
Antenna gain Gain (laser)...
- Pain &
Gain is a 2013
American action comedy film
directed by
Michael Bay and
written by
Christopher Markus and
Stephen McFeely, who
based the screenplay...
- A
gainer is the
acrobatic trick of
performing a
backwards somersault while still moving forward. In diving, this is
known as
reverse rotation (as opposed...
- In electronics,
gain is a
measure of the
ability of a two-port
circuit (often an amplifier) to
increase the
power or
amplitude of a
signal from the input...
-
gain can be a
symptom of a
serious medical condition.
Weight gain occurs when more
energy (as
calories from food and
beverage consumption) is
gained than...
- In a spread-spectrum system, the
process gain (or "processing
gain") is the
ratio of the
spread (or RF)
bandwidth to the
unspread (or baseband) bandwidth...
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Capital gain is an
economic concept defined as the
profit earned on the sale of an ****et
which has
increased in
value over the
holding period. An ****et...
- an antenna's
gain is a key
performance parameter which combines the antenna's
directivity and
radiation efficiency. The term
power gain has been deprecated...
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Gaines may
refer to:
United States Gaines, Michigan, a
village Gaines Township,
Genesee County, Michigan, a
civil township in
which the
above village...
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Primary gain and
secondary gain, and more
rarely tertiary gain, are
terms used in
medicine and
psychology to
describe the
significant subconscious psychological...
