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Meaning of mass

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  mass
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {aggregate}, {aggregated},
             {aggregative}, {mass}]
      n 1: the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a
           gravitational field
      2: (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" [syn:
         {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}]
      3: an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or
         people)
      4: (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the
         celebration of the Eucharist
      5: a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
      6: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
         mass"; "power to the people" [syn: {multitude}, {masses},
         {mass}, {hoi polloi}, {people}, {the great unwashed}]
      7: 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" [syn: {bulk},
         {mass}, {volume}]
      8: a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by
         Beethoven"
      9: a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic
         rite; "the priest said Mass"
      v 1: join together into a mass or collect or form a mass;
           "Crowds were massing outside the palace"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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