Gain
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Gain or GAIN may refer to:
Science and technology
[edit]- Gain (electronics), an electronics and signal processing term
- Antenna gain
- Gain (laser), the amplification involved in laser emission
- Gain (projection screens)
- Information gain in decision trees, in mathematics and computer science
- GAIN domain, a protein domain
- Learning rate, a tuning parameter in stochastic approximation methods, also known as gain
Health
[edit]- Primary and secondary gain, psychological mechanisms that may underlie an illness
- Global Appraisal of Individual Needs, a set of psychological assessment instruments
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, a Swiss Foundation working in the field of malnutrition
- Generating Antibiotic Incentives Now, a piece of American legislation
People
[edit]- Gain (singer), a South Korean entertainer
- Gain, anglicised form of Indian surname Gayen
Other uses
[edit]- Gain (accounting), the increase of net profit
- Gain (novel), a novel by American author Richard Powers
- Gain (EP), an album by Sadie
- Gain (detergent), a brand of detergent
- GAIN Capital, a US-based forex trading company
- Greater Avenues to Independence program, a precursor to the American CalWORKs welfare program