mass




the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field


Type of:
  • fundamental quantity; fundamental measure
  • physical property

Types:
  • body
  • biomass
  • critical mass
  • rest mass
  • relativistic mass
  • bulk
  • gravitational mass
  • inertial mass
  • atomic mass; atomic weight; relative atomic mass
  • mass energy
  • molecular weight; relative molecular mass
  • mass defect; mass deficiency


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