What is the meaning of Mass?

noun

  • The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field.
  • Often followed by `of'. ( a large number or amount or extent)
    • usage: "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"
  • An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people. )
  • Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches. ( the celebration of the Eucharist)
  • A body of matter without definite shape.
    • usage: "a huge ice mass"
  • The common people generally.
    • usage: "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
  • The property of something that is great in magnitude.
    • usage: "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
  • A musical setting for a Mass.
    • usage: "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
  • A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite.
    • usage: "the priest said Mass"

verb

  • Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass.
    • usage: "Crowds were massing outside the palace"

adjective

  • Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole.
    • usage: "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness"
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