| rdfs:comment | - The gain G of a transfer element is an amplification factor that is multiplied with the input signal x to deliver the output y: y = G x The gain thus defines the behaviour of a linear time-invariant system.
- [[w:|]][[Category: derivations|Gain]] gain, gein "profit, advantage" from [[w:|]][[Category: derivations|Gain]] gagn "benefit, advantage, use" from Proto-Germanic *gagan- (“‘gain’”). Akin to [[w:|]] gagn "gain, advantage, use", [[w:|]] gagn "benefit, profit", [[w:|]] gavn "gain", [[w:|]] gageigan "to gain", Old Norse gegn "ready"; cf. Middle English gainen "to be of use, profit, avail", and gagna "to avail, help", gavne "to benefit".
- Gain is a measure of the ability of an electronic circuit to increase the power or amplitude of a signal. Gain is usually defined as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of the same system. Kirk asked Lieutenant Uhura to bring up Spock's voice channel with the highest possible gain while attempting to rescue him from the space amoeba. (TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome" )
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| abstract | - The gain G of a transfer element is an amplification factor that is multiplied with the input signal x to deliver the output y: y = G x The gain thus defines the behaviour of a linear time-invariant system.
- Gain is a measure of the ability of an electronic circuit to increase the power or amplitude of a signal. Gain is usually defined as the mean ratio of the signal output of a system to the signal input of the same system. Kirk asked Lieutenant Uhura to bring up Spock's voice channel with the highest possible gain while attempting to rescue him from the space amoeba. (TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome" ) Just prior to the launch of the newly-refitted USS Enterprise from spacedock in the mid-2270s, there was a transporter accident. During the accident, Captain James T. Kirk requested that Starfleet boost the matter gain on the beaming signal. Unfortunately, the ship's transporter lost the patterns of both Commander Sonak and a female crewmember. Both individuals were killed during the beaming process. The fault was attributed to an inactive transporter sensor which had faulty modules. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) Commander Worf had Lt. Dax boost the gain on the transporter energizing coils in an attempt to rematerialize Trentin Fala's transporter signal, which had been disrupted by a remat detonator. The gain could not be increased any higher, and Fala died during transport. (DS9: "The Darkness and the Light")
- [[w:|]][[Category: derivations|Gain]] gain, gein "profit, advantage" from [[w:|]][[Category: derivations|Gain]] gagn "benefit, advantage, use" from Proto-Germanic *gagan- (“‘gain’”). Akin to [[w:|]] gagn "gain, advantage, use", [[w:|]] gagn "benefit, profit", [[w:|]] gavn "gain", [[w:|]] gageigan "to gain", Old Norse gegn "ready"; cf. Middle English gainen "to be of use, profit, avail", and gagna "to avail, help", gavne "to benefit". The Middle English word was reinforced, and its frequency strengthened, due to similarity in form and meaning to an unrelated [[w:|]] word gain "advancement, cultivation", with which it was confused. Middle French gain is a contraction of [[w:|]] gaaing, ga(a)igne, a noun derivative of gaaignier "to till, earn, win", also of [[w:|]][[Category: derivations|Gain]] origin, but from a different root, [[w:|]] waidanjan "to pasture, graze, hunt for food" from Proto-Germanic *waiðī, waiðō (“‘pasture, field, hunting ground’”); cf. [[w:|]] weidanōn "to hunt, forage for food" ([[w:|]] Weide "pasture"), [[w:|]] veiðr "hunting", [[w:|]] wāþ "hunting, chase, pursuit".
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