** Elision — Contraction ( grammar )

** the rebound phenomenon, also known as the loss of the check reflex is also sometimes seen in patients with cerebellar ataxia.

** a loss of regulation

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.

** IBM announces a $ 4. 97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.

** Japanese general election, 1993: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

** The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of the United States Eighth Air Force.

** Labour riots in Poznań, Poland, are crushed with heavy loss of life.

** Prime Minister of Cape Verde Pedro Pires resigns following his party's loss in the January 13 Cape Verdean parliamentary election, the first ever multiparty election in an African nation.

** An American Airlines Boeing 707 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all life on board.

** Defeat in a parliamentary vote on a major issue, e. g. loss of supply, loss of confidence.

** Patients have a loss of consciousness ( LOC ), then a lucid interval, then sudden deterioration ( vomiting, restlessness, LOC )

** Loss leader a deliberate commercial loss made in the expectation of recouping it by profitable sales of other lines

** Angular misalignment loss, power loss caused by the deviation from optimum angular alignment

** Bridging loss, the loss that results when an impedance is connected across a transmission line

** Coupling loss, the loss that occurs when energy is transferred from one circuit, optical device, or medium to another

** Insertion loss, the decrease in transmitted signal power resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line or optical fiber

** Path loss, the attenuation undergone by an electromagnetic wave in transit from a transmitter to a receiver

** Return loss, the ratio of the amplitude of the reflected wave to the amplitude of the incident wave

** Optional POKEY sound chip on cartridge for improved sounds.

** Near-open front unrounded vowel, the vowel sound represented by the æ symbol

** Acoustic dispersion, for sound waves

** Samurai cinema, a subgenre of jidaigeki, also known as chambara ( onomatopoeia describing the sound of swords clashing ).

** Stereo sound

** Japanese sound symbolism

** The Voice-provides speech synthesis & enhanced sound effects

** Quantization ( sound processing )

** Walter Murch, American film editor and sound designer

** George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer ( d. 1985 )

** Stock sound effect

** Clipping ( audio ), the clipping of the top and bottom of a sound wave, referred to as distortion or overdrive

** Controlling sound and video attributes, as well as the channel list, in modern TVs

** Ben-Hur ( 1959 film ), an MGM sound film starring Charlton Heston that won 11 Academy Awards

** Sampler ( musical instrument ), an electronic music instrument that plays back sound recordings on command

** Stereophonic sound, namely two channel audio

** Surround sound, more than two channels though still technically stereo

** single action, producing sound only in one bellows direction ( usually found only on English System bass instruments and some baritone Instruments );

** double action, producing sound in both bellows directions ;

** 4 channel mono sound ( 3 Square Waves, 1 White noise )

** Use of sound instead of standard ⟨ a ⟩ in the third person singular of most verbs ; e. g. ( ell ) cantava ( instead of ) ' he sang '.

** Jim Uzwack ( engineer ) and sound man, Kenneth R. Irwin, Tom Pick ( engineers & producers ) & Jimmy Sturr ( engineer, producer & artist ) for Gone Polka

** Audiophiles go towards sound sources.

** Audiophobes go away from sound sources.