Gain or GAIN may refer to:
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Gain (electronics)
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 to the output port by adding energy converted from some power supply to the signal. It i ...
, an electronics and signal processing term
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Antenna gain
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Gain (laser) In laser physics, gain or amplification is a process where the medium transfers part of its energy to the emitted electromagnetic radiation, resulting in an increase in optical power. This is the basic principle of all lasers.
Quantitatively, ''gai ...
, the amplification involved in laser emission
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Gain (projection screens)
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Information gain in decision trees
In information theory and machine learning, information gain is a synonym for ''Kullback–Leibler divergence''; the amount of information gained about a random variable or signal from observing another random variable. However, in the context of ...
, in mathematics and computer science
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GAIN domain, a protein domain
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Learning rate
In machine learning and statistics, the learning rate is a tuning parameter in an optimization algorithm that determines the step size at each iteration while moving toward a minimum of a loss function. Since it influences to what extent newly ...
, a tuning parameter in stochastic approximation methods, also known as gain
Health
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Primary and secondary gain, psychological mechanisms that may underlie an illness
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Global Appraisal of Individual Needs, a set of psychological assessment instruments
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Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a non-profit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland. GAIN was developed at the UN 2002 Special Session of the General Assembly on Children. GAIN’s actions include improving the consumption ...
, a Swiss Foundation working in the field of malnutrition
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Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now
The Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act of 2012 (FDASIA) is a piece of American regulatory legislation signed into law on July 9, 2012. It gives the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to collect user ...
, a piece of American legislation
People
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Gain (singer)
Son Ga-in (; born September 20, 1987), known mononymously as Gain, is a South Korean singer, actress and entertainer, best known as a member of the South Korean girl group Brown Eyed Girls. Having debuted with her home group earlier in 2006, G ...
, a South Korean entertainer
* Gain, anglicised form of Indian surname
Gayen
Gayen, sometimes anglicised as Gain, is a Bengali surname found in the Indian subcontinent, mainly in the Indian states of West Bengal, Odisha and Assam. In Bengali, the title ''Gayen'' (গায়েন) referred to anyone involved in the med ...
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Gain (accounting)
In financial accounting (CON 8.4), a gain is when the market value of an asset exceeds the purchase price of that asset. The gain is unrealized until the asset is sold for cash, at which point it becomes a realized gain. This is an important distin ...
, the increase of net profit
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''Gain'' (novel), a novel by American author Richard Powers
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''Gain'' (EP), an album by Sadie
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Gain (detergent)
Procter & Gamble (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation with a portfolio of brands.
Brands with net sales of more than US$1 billion annually
As of 2015, the company stated it owned the following brands with net annual sales ...
, a brand of detergent
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GAIN Capital
GAIN Capital is a US-based provider of online trading services, headquartered in Bedminster, New Jersey, Bedminster, New Jersey. The company provides market access and trade execution services in forex, foreign exchange, Contract For Difference, c ...
, a US-based forex trading company
* Greater Avenues to Independence program, a precursor to the American
CalWORKs The California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program is the California welfare implementation of the federal welfare-to-work Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that provides cash aid and services to e ...
welfare program
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Gein (disambiguation)
Gein may refer to:
;People
* Ed Gein (1906–1984), American murderer
* Gidget Gein (1969–2008), American musician and artist
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*Ed Gein (band), a Syracuse grindcore band named after the serial killer
*Gein metro station
Gein is an Amster ...
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Gayn (disambiguation) Gayn may refer to:
* Ghayn, an Arabic letter
* Gayn, a surname:
**Mark Gayn, American/Canadian journalist
See also
* Gayne
* Gain (disambiguation)
Gain or GAIN may refer to:
Science and technology
* Gain (electronics), an electronics and s ...
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Gane
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