Mass (disambiguation)
The term Mass is used for different concepts, in different fields of study:
Physics
- Mass, a physical quantity describing the amount of matter in something (everything it is made of)
- Thermal mass, a mass which absorbs heat
Religion
- Mass (liturgy), the main worship service of many Christian churches
- Mass (music), a piece of music for choir, which is sung during the religious service. The text of this is usually from a religious setting
Music and theatre
- Mass (movie), a Tollywood movie 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
Placenames and geography
Medicine and health
- Body mass index, a health indicator to do with to human body weight and height
- 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
- Mass (medicine), a tumor
People
- Isaac Mass, a Franklin County, Massachusetts politician
- Mass, another name for electronic musician Peter Harris, more commonly known as Blu Peter
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