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 drawer for storing cash and other ...
, 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 unders ...
, is the total income before deducting
expenses
An expense is an item requiring an outflow of money, or any form of fortune in general, to another person or group as payment for an item, service, or other category of costs. For a tenant, rent is an expense. For students or parents, tuition ...
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 grea ...
, a counting unit equal to 144 items
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Gross weight
In science and engineering, the weight of an object is the force acting on the object due to gravity.
Some standard textbooks define weight as a vector quantity, the gravitational force acting on the object. Others define weight as a scalar ...
* 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 rele ...
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
The Gross mine is one of the largest gold mines in Russia and in the world. The mine is located in Sakha Republic. The mine has estimated reserves of 8.27 million oz of gold and is being developed by Nordgold
Nord Gold S.E., (Nordgold) is a go ...
, 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, formally the University of Minnesota, ...
, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica
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33800 Gross
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Year 338 ( CCCXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) 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 ' ...
, 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 ...
*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 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on. The reason for ...
as opposed to a piece of land; as in:
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Easement in gross
An easement is a nonpossessory right to use and/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 ...
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 ta ...
as opposed to ''profit appurtenant''
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Villein in gross
A villein, otherwise known as '' cottar'' or '' crofter'', is a serf tied to the land in the feudal system. Villeins had more rights and social status than those in slavery, but were under a number of legal restrictions which differentiated them ...
(tied to the lord) as opposed to ''villein regardant'' (tied to the manor)
Simply refers to something being disgusting or undesirable.
See also
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Gros (disambiguation)
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Grosz (disambiguation)
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