2. (noun)batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad (often followed by `of') a largenumber 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"
3. (noun)mass an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
5. (noun)mass a body of matter without definite shape "a huge ice mass"
6. (noun)multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed the commonpeople generally "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"
7. (noun)bulk, mass, volume 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"
8. (noun)Mass a musicalsetting for a Mass "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
9. (adj)Mass a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite "the priest said Mass"
10. (verb)aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass 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"
11. (verb)mass join together into a mass or collect or form a mass "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
2. (noun)MASS the portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus
3. (noun)MASS a quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water
10. (verb)MASS to form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble
Definition of 'MASS'
The Standard Electrical Dictionary
1. MASS The quantity of matter in a body. The C. G. S. unit of mass is the quantity of matter in a gram. While weight varies with latitude and other circumstances, mass is invariable.
The unit of mass is also defined as the quantity of matter which in a balance will counterpoise a standard mass, the gram or pound. As the gram is intended to be the mass of one cubic centimeter of water at 3.09º C. (39º F.), the C. G. S. unit of mass is really 1.000013 gram.
As a primary unit its dimensions are indicated by M.
Definition of 'MASS'
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
1. MASS 1. The concentration of combat power. 2. The military formation in which units are spaced at less than the normal distances and intervals.