Noun

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The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign.

A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.

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(label) A vestigial organ; a non-functional organ or body part that was once functional in an evolutionary ancestor.

* 1904 Transactions of theannual session , Volume 40, Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, p160

Any person seeing such a condition could not help being frightened at the conditions found, and it seems to me that that fact should lead us to think that the appendix is a vestige or becoming so.

* 1932 (John Arthur Thomson), Riddles of science, Ayer Publishing, p824

Now this paired organ of Jacobsen began in reptiles and is well developed in many mammals. But in man it is a vestige , often disappearing altogether; and the two openings are closed.

* 2007 R. Randal Bollingera, Andrew S. Barbasa, Errol L. Busha, Shu S. Lina, & William Parkera, "Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix," Journal of Theoretical Biology

This idea was confirmed by Scott, who performed a detailed comparative analysis of primate anatomy and demonstrated conclusively that the appendix is derived for some unidentified function and is not a vestige .

Noun

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an instance of losing, such as a defeat

The match ended in their first loss of the season.

The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.

Loss of an arm ; loss of weight ; loss of cognitive functions ; loss of appetite.

the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone

We mourn his loss .

(in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict

The battle was won, but losses were great.

(financial) the sum an entity loses on balance

''The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss , when this difference is positive.

destruction, ruin

''It was a terrible crash: both cars were total losses

(engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work

The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss''' before the subsequent ' losses during transport over the grid