Gross Explained

Gross may refer to:

Finance

• Gross Cash Registers, a defunct UK company with a high profile in the 1970s
• Gross (economics), is the total income before deducting expenses

Science and measurement

• Gross (unit), a counting unit equal to 144 items
• Gross weight
• Gross heating value, see Heat of combustion

Places

• Gross, Illinois, an unincorporated community
• Gross, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Gross mine, a gold mine in Russia
• Gross, Nebraska, a village
• Gross Hills, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica
• 33800 Gross, an asteroid

Other uses

• Gross (surname)
• 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 as opposed to a piece of land; as in:
  • Easement in gross as opposed to easement appurtenant
  • Hereditary in gross service, as opposed to serjeanty
  • Profit in gross as opposed to profit appurtenant
  • Villein in gross (tied to the lord) as opposed to villein regardant (tied to the manor)

See also

• • Gros (disambiguation)
• Grosz (disambiguation)