Gross may refer to:

Finance

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 v ...

, a defunct UK company with a high profile in the 1970s *

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 underst ...

, is the total income before deducting expenses

Science and measurement

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 great ...

, a counting unit equal to 144 items *

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 qua ...

* 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 relea ...

Places

Gross, Illinois Gross is an unincorporated community in Hardin County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. ...

, an unincorporated community *

Gross, Kansas Gross is an unincorporated community in Lincoln Township, Crawford County, Kansas Crawford County (county code CR) is a county located in Southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. Its county seat is Girar ...

, an unincorporated community *

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 Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) a ...

, a gold mine in Russia *

Gross, Nebraska Gross is a village in Boyd County, Nebraska, Boyd County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the village had a total population of two, down by 60% from its 2000 United States Census, 2000 population of fiv ...

, a village *

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 Geological Party, 1963–64, for Barton Gross, a geologist with the part ...

, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica *

33800 Gross __NOTOC__ 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

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 ...

* G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS), a recurring element in the comic ''Calvin and Hobbes'' *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: **

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'' **

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'' **

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'' **

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 f ...

(tied to the lord) as opposed to ''villein regardant'' (tied to the manor)

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