Mass (disambiguation)

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Mass can mean to:

  • Mass, a physical quantity describing the amount of matter in something (everything it is made of)
  • Mass (liturgy), the main worship service of many Christian churches
  • Mass (music), a piece of music for choir that sets the usual texts of a church service to music.
  • Mass (medicine), a tumor
  • Mass (film), a Tollywood film starring Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Mass (theatre), a 1971 musical play by Leonard Bernstein based on Roman Catholic liturgy
  • Mass (band), a post-punk band who recorded for the 4AD label
  • The Mass (band), an american jazzcore band
  • Mass., an abbreviation for the U.S. state of Massachusetts
  • Landmass (also land mass)
  • Mass, another name for electronic musician Peter Harris, more commonly known as Blu Peter
  • Body mass index, a health indicator to do with to human body weight and height
  • Thermal mass, a mass which absorbs heat
  • Muscle mass, a bodybuilding term to do with the configuration of muscles in a person's body
  • MASS, the common acronym for sports nutrition company Muscle And Sports Science
  • Isaac Mass, a Franklin County, Massachusetts politician

In the plural form, the masses, can mean:

  • The working class or the people ("the masses"). See also multitudes. Masses are disorganized, as opposed to classes (see class consciousness).
  • Hoi polloi (or "the masses"), a term that usually refers to ordinary, simple people (not important people like rulers and aristocracy)
  • The Masses, a Socialist magazine

An adjective describing a large amount of something, as in:

  • mass production
  • mass transit
  • mass communication
  • mass education
  • mass marketing
  • mass media
  • mass murder
  • mass suicide
  • weapons of mass destruction
  • mass burial
  • mass hysteria
  • mass storage