Gross may refer to:
Finance
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Gross Cash Registers
A cash register, sometimes called a till or automated money handling system, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale. It is usually attached to a Cash register#Cash drawer, drawer fo ...
, a defunct UK company with a high profile in the 1970s
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Gross (economics)
A net (sometimes written nett) value is the resultant amount after accounting for the sum or difference of two or more variables.
In economics, it is frequently used to imply the remaining value after accounting for a specific, commonly under ...
, is the total income before deducting expenses
Science and measurement
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Gross (unit)
In English and related languages, several terms involving the words "great" or "gross" relate to numbers involving a multiple of exponents of twelve (dozen):
*A gross refers to a group of 144 items (a dozen dozen or a square dozen, 122).
*A great ...
, a counting unit equal to 144 items
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Gross weight
In science and engineering, the weight of an object is a quantity associated with the gravitational force exerted on the object by other objects in its environment, although there is some variation and debate as to the exact definition.
Some st ...
* Gross heating value, see
Heat of combustion
The heating value (or energy value or calorific value) of a substance, usually a fuel or food (see food energy), is the amount of heat released during the combustion of a specified amount of it.
The ''calorific value'' is the total energy relea ...
Places
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Gross, Illinois, an unincorporated community
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Gross, Kansas, an unincorporated community
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Gross mine, a gold mine in Russia
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Gross, Nebraska, a village
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Gross Hills
The Gross Hills () are the line of rugged hills and peaks located east of Schmidt Glacier, in the Heritage Range of Antarctica. They were named by the University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as Un ...
, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica
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33800 Gross
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Year 338 ( CCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Ursus and Polemius (or, less frequently, year 1091 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination ...
, an asteroid
Other uses
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Gross (surname)
Gross or Groß in German is the correct spelling of the surname under German orthographic rules. In Switzerland, the name is spelled Gross. Some Germans and Austrians also use the spelling with "ss" instead of "ß".
It is a surname of German, Pru ...
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G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS), a recurring element in the comic ''Calvin and Hobbes''
*In golf, the gross score is the number of strokes taken before accounting for any
handicap allowances
*"In gross", legally associated with a
legal person
In law, a legal person is any person or legal entity that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, lawsuit, sue and be sued, ownership, own property, and so on. The reason for the term "''le ...
as opposed to a piece of land; as in:
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Easement in gross
An easement is a nonpossessory right to use or enter onto the real property of another without possessing it. It is "best typified in the right of way which one landowner, A, may enjoy over the land of another, B". An easement is a property rig ...
as opposed to ''easement appurtenant''
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Hereditary in gross
Under feudalism in France and England during the Middle Ages, tenure by serjeanty () was a form of tenure in return for a specified duty other than standard knight-service.
Etymology
The word comes from the French noun , itself from the Latin ...
service, as opposed to ''serjeanty''
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Profit in gross
A profit (short for ''profit-à-prendre'' in Middle French for "advantage or benefit for the taking"), in the law of real property, is a nonpossessory interest in land similar to the better-known easement, which gives the holder the right to ...
as opposed to ''profit appurtenant''
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Villein in gross
A villein is a class of serf tied to the land under the feudal system. As part of the contract with the lord of the manor, they were expected to spend some of their time working on the lord's fields in return for land. Villeins existed under ...
(tied to the lord) as opposed to ''villein regardant'' (tied to the manor)
See also
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Gros (disambiguation)
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Grosz (disambiguation)
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