mass
/mˈæs/
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Definitions
Adjective Satellite
formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
Noun
the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
Noun
(often followed by `of'') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
Noun
an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
Noun
(Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
Noun
a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
Noun
the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
Noun
the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
Noun
a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
Noun
a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"
Verb
join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
Synonyms
aggregate
aggregated
aggregative
batch
bulk
deal
flock
good deal
great deal
hatful
heap
hoi polloi
lot
masses
mess
mickle
mint
mountain
muckle
multitude
passel
peck
people
pile
plenty
pot
quite a little
raft
sight
slew
spate
stack
the great unwashed
tidy sum
volume
wad
More General Terms
accumulation
aggregation
assemblage
body
church music
collection
crowd
crowd together
fundamental measure
fundamental quantity
group
grouping
large indefinite amount
large indefinite quantity
magnitude
physical property
prayer
religious ceremony
religious music
religious ritual
More Specific Terms
atomic mass
atomic weight
audience
biomass
body
bulk
coprolith
critical mass
deluge
dollar volume
drift
faecalith
fecalith
flood
followers
following
gravitational mass
haymow
High Mass
inertial mass
inundation
laity
logjam
Low Mass
mass defect
mass deficiency
mass energy
mat
molecular weight
mush
press
pulp
relative atomic mass
relative molecular mass
relativistic mass
Requiem
rest mass
shock
stercolith
temporalty
torrent
turnover