Mass (disambiguation)
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Mass may refer to:
[edit] In science
- Mass, the amount of matter in an object to which its weight is proportional
- Rest mass, the mass of a particle or other object while at rest in a particular reference frame
- Invariant mass, mass defined in such a way as to be invariant in all reference frames
- Thermal mass, a mass which absorbs heat
- Mass (mass spectrometry), a chemical analysis technique
- Mass (medicine), a tumor
- Mass wasting, the geomorphic process by which soil and rock move downslope under gravity
- True mass, the mass of a planet, used to differentiate from a lower limit on mass
- Landmass, a continuous area of land or land mass, the measure of an area of land
- Body mass index, a health indicator related to human body weight and height
[edit] In religion
- Mass (liturgy), religious service in some Christian churches
- Mass (music), a choral composition that sets liturgical text to music
[edit] In entertainment
- Mass (film), a Tollywood film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
- Mass (theatre), a 1971 musical setting of the Roman Catholic Mass by Leonard Bernstein
- Mass (English band), a post-punk band who recorded for the 4AD label
- The Mass (band), an American jazzcore band
- Mass, an alias of electronic musician Peter Harris (Blu Peter)
[edit] Other uses
- College-Ready Math-Science School, The Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School or just (Stern MASS)
- Mass., an abbreviation for the U.S. state of Massachusetts
- Isaac Mass, a Franklin County, Massachusetts politician
- Maß, a unit of volume in German, pronounced 'mass'
- Muscle mass, a bodybuilding term concerning the configuration of muscles in a person's body
[edit] As an adjective meaning many
Mass may be used to modify nouns to apply to many cases or instances:
- mass production
- mass transit
- mass communication
- mass education
- mass marketing
- mass media
- mass murder
- mass suicide
- weapons of mass destruction
- mass burial
- mass hallucination
- mass hysteria
- mass storage
[edit] In plural
The plural form, masses, may refer to:
- The working class or the people
- Hoi polloi (or "the masses"), a term that usually refers to common people
- The Masses, a Socialist magazine