Advantage may refer to:
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Advantage (debate)
In competitive debate, an advantage is the way that the Affirmative (policy debate), affirmative team refers to the positive consequences of adopting their position on the Resolution (debate), debate resolution. It is an argument structure that s ...
, an argument structure in competitive debate
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Mechanical advantage, in engineering, the ratio of output force to input force on a system
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Advantage of terrain
An advantage of terrain occurs when military personnel gain an advantage over an enemy by using or simply in spite of, the terrain around them. The term does not exclusively apply to battles and can be used more generally regarding entire campaig ...
, in military use, a superiority in elevation over an opposing force
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Advantage (cryptography)
In cryptography, an adversary's advantage is a measure of how successfully it can attack a cryptographic algorithm, by distinguishing it from an idealized version of that type of algorithm. Note that in this context, the "adversary" is itself an a ...
, a measure of the effectiveness of an enemy's code-breaking effort
Sport
* Advantage, in
tennis terminology
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology.
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* Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and gen ...
, when one player needs one more point to win the game
* Advantage in football and rugby; decision made by officials in a game ''not'' to stop play after a rule infringement, because the opposing side has a better position if play continues normally. See, for example, entries in glossaries of
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
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rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
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rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...
terms
Arts and entertainment
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''Advantage'' (film), a 1977 Bulgarian film
*''The Advantage : Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business'', book by
Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni (born c. 1965) is an American author of books on business management, particularly in relation to team management. He is best known as the author of '' The Five Dysfunctions of a Team'', a popular business fable that explores work ...
Music
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''Advantage'' (album), a 1983 post-punk album by the English band Clock DVA
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Advantage (band), an English brass rock band (fl. 2000s)
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The Advantage (band)
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The Advantage (album)
Ships
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HMS ''Advantage'', one of three ships of the British Navy
Brands
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Advantage Database Server, a database product from Sybase iAnywhere
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Imidacloprid (''Advantage'' or ''Advantage Flea Killer''), a flea poison for pets
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Gillig Advantage, a low-floor transit bus
* Advantage, later known as
Alpen Wheat Flakes, a breakfast cereal
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Advantage Rent a Car, a car rental company
* GP Advantage, a brand of printer paper owned by
Georgia-Pacific
Georgia-Pacific LLC is an American pulp and paper company based in Atlanta, Georgia, and is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of tissue, pulp, paper, toilet and paper towel dispensers, packaging, building products and r ...
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NES Advantage
The NES Advantage is an arcade style controller manufactured by Asciiware and released by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987.Nintendo Power: "Also from Asciiware, who actually made the NES Advantage that Nintendo of America t ...
, a joystick for the Nintendo Entertainment System
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Super Advantage, a joystick for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System
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