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PROPERTY OF MATTER TO RESIST CHANGES OF THE STATE OF MOTION AND TO ATTRACT OTHER BODIES
Inertial mass; Gravitational mass; Metric unit of weight; Metric mass; Metric weight; Mass (physics); Inertial Mass; Imaginary mass; Gravitational Mass; Mass properties; Units of mass; Active gravitational mass; Mass Properties; Maſs; Massed; Passive gravitational mass; Gravitic mass; Unit of mass; Gravitating mass
  • Astronaut David Scott performs the feather and hammer drop experiment on the Moon.
  • Vertical section drawing of Cavendish's torsion balance instrument including the building in which it was housed. The large balls were hung from a frame so they could be rotated into position next to the small balls by a pulley from outside. Figure 1 of Cavendish's paper.
  • 1285 BCE}}). The scene shows [[Anubis]] weighing the heart of Hunefer.
  • Distance traveled by a freely falling ball is proportional to the square of the elapsed time.
  • Galileo Galilei (1636)
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  • Massmeter, a device for measuring the inertial mass of an astronaut in weightlessness. The mass is calculated via the oscillation period for a spring with the astronaut attached ([[Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics]]).
  • intermediate speeds]], it will revolve around Earth along an elliptical orbit (C, D). Beyond the [[escape velocity]], it will leave the Earth without returning (E).
  • The kilogram is one of the seven [[SI base units]].
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mass         
I. n.
1.
Lump.
2.
Heap, assemblage, combination, congeries.
3.
Collective body of fluid matter.
4.
Majority.
5.
Size, magnitude, bulk, dimension.
6.
Whole, aggregate, totality, body.
II. n.
Communion service (in the Roman Catholic Church), celebration of the Lord's Supper.
Mass         
A verb theat may replace ALOT in any situation. Can also replace VERY
There was MASS people at the concert. The movie theater was MASS crowded. I
mass         
(masses, massing, massed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A mass of things is a large number of them grouped together.
On his desk is a mass of books and papers.
N-SING: N of n
2.
A mass of something is a large amount of it.
She had a mass of auburn hair.
N-SING: N of n
3.
Masses of something means a great deal of it. (INFORMAL)
There's masses of work for her to do...
It has masses of flowers each year.
QUANT: QUANT of n-uncount/pl-n
4.
Mass is used to describe something which involves or affects a very large number of people.
...ideas on combating mass unemployment...
...weapons of mass destruction.
ADJ: ADJ n
5.
A mass of a solid substance, a liquid, or a gas is an amount of it, especially a large amount which has no definite shape.
...before it cools and sets into a solid mass...
The fourteenth century cathedral was reduced to a mass of rubble.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
6.
If you talk about the masses, you mean the ordinary people in society, in contrast to the leaders or the highly educated people.
His music is commercial. It is aimed at the masses...
N-PLURAL: the N
7.
The mass of people are most of the people in a country, society, or group.
The 1939-45 world war involved the mass of the population...
= bulk, majority
N-SING: the N of n
8.
When people or things mass, or when you mass them, they gather together into a large crowd or group.
Shortly after the workers went on strike, police began to mass at the shipyard...
The General was massing his troops for a counterattack.
= gather
VERB: V, V n
9.
If you say that something is a mass of things, you mean that it is covered with them or full of them.
In the spring, the meadow is a mass of daffodils.
N-SING: N of n
10.
In physics, the mass of an object is the amount of physical matter that it has. (TECHNICAL)
Astronomers know that Pluto and Triton have nearly the same size, mass, and density.
N-VAR
11.
Mass is a Christian church ceremony, especially in a Roman Catholic or Orthodox church, during which people eat bread and drink wine in order to remember the last meal of Jesus Christ.
She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.
N-VAR
12.

Wikipedia

Mass

Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementary particles, theoretically with the same amount of matter, have nonetheless different masses. Mass in modern physics has multiple definitions which are conceptually distinct, but physically equivalent. Mass can be experimentally defined as a measure of the body's inertia, meaning the resistance to acceleration (change of velocity) when a net force is applied. The object's mass also determines the strength of its gravitational attraction to other bodies.

The SI base unit of mass is the kilogram (kg). In physics, mass is not the same as weight, even though mass is often determined by measuring the object's weight using a spring scale, rather than balance scale comparing it directly with known masses. An object on the Moon would weigh less than it does on Earth because of the lower gravity, but it would still have the same mass. This is because weight is a force, while mass is the property that (along with gravity) determines the strength of this force.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass
Pronunciation examples for Mass
1. mass.
The Push - A Climber's Journey of Endurance _ Tommy Caldwell _ Talks at Google
2. masses.
Madagascar’s Mouse & Lemurs _ Anne Yoder _ Talks at Google
3. mass.
Guittard Chocolate _ Amy Guittard & Donald Wressel _ Talks at Google
4. Not to mention robotic insects mass produced, mass deployed, mass
Amazonia _ Hugh Raffles _ Talks at Google
5. Mass consumption is leading to mass depression.
Stuffocation _ James Wallman _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of Mass
1. We must recognize that the mass of development, the mass of people, the mass of consumers are all in Asia.
2. At the high end of temperature predictions, the effects would be universal and catastrophic –– mass flooding, mass famine and mass migration.
3. Now, I thought he had weapons of mass destruction; members of Congress thought he had weapons of mass destruction; the world thought he had weapons of mass destruction.
4. Democrats Not Voting Biden, Del.; Kennedy, Mass.; Kerry, Mass.; Wyden, Ore.
5. By measuring your lean body mass, the monitor can predict your fat mass.
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