mass

Meaning

Noun

1. Matter, material.
2. (obsolete) Matter, material.
3. Matter, material.
4. Matter, material.
5. Matter, material.
6. Matter, material.
7. A large quantity; a sum.
8. A large quantity; a sum.
9. A large quantity; a sum.
10. A large quantity; a sum.
11. A large quantity; a sum.

Verb

1. To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble.
2. To assemble in a mass

Adj

1. Involving a mass of things; concerning a large quantity or number.
2. Involving a mass of people; of, for, or by the masses.

Verb

To celebrate mass.

Concepts

mass

heap

crowd

multitude

pile

lump

collection

bulk

cluster

throng

group

flock

accumulation

swarm

volume

body

quantity

stack

lot

batch

liturgy

aggregate

aggregation

clump

congregate

gather

weight

block

agglomerate

clod

people

plenty

popular

assemblage

massive

drift

clot

tumor

wad

horde

magnitude

good deal

great deal

hatful

mess

mickle

mint

mountain

passel

pot

raft

slew

tidy sum

ball

collect

fuse

bundle

amount

fly around

stream

citizen

inhabitants

populace

residents

community

piece

public

large amount

number

aggregated

aggregative

hoi polloi

masses

the great unwashed

deal

muckle

peck

quite a little

sight

spate

total

conglomeration

matter

service

gobbet

hoard

bunch

quality

size

collective

bulky

pulp

main part

paste

mallet

sledgehammer

boulder

chunk

unit

crush

host

mass of people

branch

huddle

cake

pack

mob

alluvion

sediment

be crammed

be crowded

be jammed

onlookers

knot

agglutinate

collectively

unanimously

portion

section

majority

plurality

much

fixed shape

solid

solid body

stockpile

store

burden

load

for the masses

quantity collection

congest

gross

M

gathering

company

stellar group

file

loaf

concentrate

focus

patch

divine service

action

choral service

function

ministration

office

operation

gob

furl

muster

pick up

shrink

wipe up

accumulate

amass

conglomerate

cumulate

crop

rick

shoal

stook

tumulus

ensemble

summation

excrescence

growth

hump

hunch

neoplasm

nub

tumour

group lump

briquet

ingot

bank

heaping

substance

nature

plasm

grade

qualitative properties

dimensions

creature

configuration

figuration

figure

statue

Eucharist

large group

common

abundance

herd

huge

massy

extensional

congeries

mound

assemble

bunch up

convene

foregather

forgather

get together

meet

turn out

mass energy

ruck

large number

volumed

common people

tons of

tangle

church service

great number

large quantity

great many

blob

a whole lot

flood

heaps of

sea

communion service

general

serial

cluster together

unwieldy

voluminous

extent

area

bigness

dimension

measurement

scale

amounts

quantities

worship

religion

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mæs/

Etymology

In late Middle English (circa 1400) as masse in the sense of "lump, quantity of matter", from Anglo-Norman masse, in Old French attested from the 11th century, via late Latin massa (“lump, dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”). The Greek noun may be derived from the verb μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European *maǵ- (“to oil, knead”), although this is uncertain. Doublet of masa.
The sense of "a large number or quantity" arises circa 1580. The scientific sense is from 1687 (as Latin massa) in the works of Isaac Newton, with the first English use (as mass) occurring in 1704.

Sentences

An example of such a system is a mass on a surface with friction .