Advantage

Advantage may refer to:

  • In military terms, advantage is the superiority in elevation which one side enjoys over the opposing element (Advantage of terrain)
  • In tennis, advantage is when one player wins a point from a deuce and needs one more point to win the game. (See Tennis terminolog)
  • Advantage (cryptography), a measure of the effectiveness of an enemy's code-breaking effort
  • A term in soccer In-field play advantage
  • A joystick produced by Asciiware for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Advantage)
  • Either of two ships of the British Navy (HMS Advantage)
  • In Engineering, advantage is the ratio of output force to the input force of a mechanical, electrical, hydraulic or other physical system (Mechanical advantage)
  • A breakfast cereal.
  • The NES Advantage: an arcade modeled joystick for the Nintendo Entertainment System
  • Advantage (band), an English brass rock band (fl. 2000s)
  • Advantage (film), a 1977 Bulgarian film
  • The Advantage, an American indie rock band covering old Nintendo music (fl. 2000s)
  • The Gillig Advantage, a name given to Gillig's low-floor transit bus
  • In veterinary medicine, Advantage or Advantage Flea Killer is a brand name for imidacloprid, a flea-poison for pets
  • Advantage Rent A Car - car rental
  • Advantage Database Server, a database product from Sybase iAnywhere
  • GP Advantage, a brand of printer paper owned by Georgia-Pacific

Famous quotes containing the word advantage:

    I perceive I have not really understood any thing, not a single
    object, and that no man ever can,
    Nature here in sight of the sea taking advantage of me to dart upon me and sting me,
    Because I have dared to open my mouth to sing at all.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)