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Mass
1. Public celebration of the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant churches.
2. The sacrament of the Eucharist.
3. A musical setting of certain parts of the Mass; especially, the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.

From Ecclesiastical Latin missa, past participle of mittere, "to send" (away); so called from the words of dismissal at the end of the service: Ite, missa est, "Go, (the congregation) is dismissed" or "Go, it (the prayer) has been sent." The phrase in Latin has also been interpreted to mean: "Go, it is the dismissal" or "Go, dismissed."

To repeat, the phrase ite, missa est refers to the dismissal of the congregation at the end of the Mass with this literal translation: "Go, it has been sent on its way" or "Go, the mass is ended."

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(Greek: tumor, morbid growth; to swell, bulge; mass, group)
(Greek: "mass, bulk"; denotes relationship to a tumor, process of cancer formation; swelling, or mass)
(Latin: swelling, node, lump, mass)
(Latin: a storeroom, a chamber, a closet; by extension, of or pertaining to a cell, a microscopic protoplasmic mass made up of a nucleus enclosed in a semipermeable membrane)
(Greek > Latin: formless matter; especially from Greek, gulf, chasm, abyss, the rude unformed mass; and by extension, "confusion and disorder")
(Greek: groat, grain, any small rounded mass; cartilage, gristle, granule, or a relationship to cartilage)
(Greek > Latin: swelling, a knot; center of a cavity; nerve center; pertaining to a mass of nerve tissue)
(Latin: a round body, a ball; round, a sphere; the earth; "sphere" came from Latin globus, "round mass, sphere"; related to gleba, "clod, soil, land". Sense of "planet earth," or a three-dimensional map of it, appeared first in 1553)
(Greek: write, writing, something written, a written record, a recording; letters; words; later, a small weight, a unit of mass in the metric system)
(Greek mikso > Latin mixtus: mix, mixed, a mixing, a mingling, an intercourse; to combine or to blend into one mass or substance; to combine things; such as, activities, ideas, styles; to balance and to adjust individual musical performers’ parts to make an overall sound by electronic means)
(Latin: flat cake; cakelike mass, especially the uterine organ that connects the mother to the child by way of the umbilical cord)
(Latin: bristle [short stiff hair on an animal or plant, or a mass of short stiff hairs growing; especially, on a hog's back or a man's face])
(Latin: small rounded mass of tissue, especially of lymphoid tissue; tonsil)
(Latin: a pendent, fleshy mass of tissue hanging from the soft palate above the root of the tongue; mucous membrane)
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electromagnetic mass
1. The mass of a moving charge whose kinetic energy appears to account for the discrepancy between the total field energy and the field energy of a purely static electric field.
2. The contribution to the mass of an object from its electric and magnetic field energy.
This entry is located in the following unit: electro-, electr-, electri- (page 40)
epidemic hysteria, mass hysteria
Hysteria in a group of people, usually closely associated in a school or workplace.

The inciting incident might be a rumor or an unaccustomed odor; such as, paint fumes in a workplace.

ion microprobe mass spectrometer
A type of secondary ion mass spectrometer (instrument used to disperse radiant energy or particles into a spectrum and measure properties such as wavelength, mass, energy, or index of refraction) in which primary ions are focused on a spot 1-2 micrometers in diameter, mass-charge separation of secondary ions is carried out by a double focusing mass spectrometer or spectrograph.

A magnified image of isotopic distributions on the sample surface is produced using synchronous scanning of the primary ion beam and an oscilloscope.

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ion microprobe, ion probe, secondary ion mass spectrometer, SIMS
An instrument for microscopic chemical analysis, in which a beam of primary ions with an energy in the range 5-20 kilo-electron volts hit a small spot on the surface of a sample with high-energy particles, and positive and negative secondary ions sputtered from the surface are analyzed in a mass spectrometer.
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ion-cyclotron-resonance mass spectrometer
1. A mass spectrometer in which the mass distribution of orbiting ions within a magnetic field is detected by bringing ion frequencies sequentially into resonance with applied radio frequencies.
2. A device for detecting and measuring the mass distribution of ions orbiting in an applied magnetic field, either by applying a constant radio-frequency signal and varying the magnetic field to bring ion frequencies equal to the applied radio frequency sequentially into resonance, or by rapidly varying the radio frequency and applying Fourier transform techniques (an operation that transforms one complex-valued function of a real variable into another one).

Fourier transform techniques as used in electronics, control systems engineering, and statistics, is a term used to describe the analysis of mathematical functions or signals with respect to frequency, rather than time.

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ion-mass spectrometer
An analytical instrument in which ions, produced from a sample, are separated by electric or magnetic fields according to their ratios of charge to mass.

A record is produced (mass spectrum) of the types of ion present and their relative amounts.

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mass peristalsis (s) (noun), mass peristalses (pl)
Forced movements of short duration in which the contents of the colon are moved from one section to another area: Mass peristalsis takes place three or four times each day.
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thermal mass
A material used to absorb, store, and later release heat, and so retarding the temperature variation within a building space; for example, concrete, brick, masonry, mortar, rock, water, or any other such materials with high heat capacities.
virial-theorem mass
In astronomy, the mass of a star cluster or cluster of galaxies that is derived from the mean motions.
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mass
The amount of matter contained in a body; measured in grams, kilograms, or tons.
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air mass
A body of air in the lower atmosphere, which is more or less at a constant temperature and moisture content, and is often bounded by cold and warm fronts.
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air mass or air mass ratio
Equal to the cosine of the zenith angle or that angle from directly overhead to a line intersecting the sun.

The air mass is an indication of the length of the path solar radiation travels through the atmosphere. An air mass of 1.0 means the sun is directly overhead and the radiation travels through one atmosphere (thickness).

This entry is located in the following unit: Photovoltaic Conversion Efficiency Terms + (page 1)
Jeans mass
The mass of a region of gas above which its own gravity can cause it to collapse in spite of any outward thermal pressure.
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mascom, mass concentration
Mascons (mass concentrations) are regions on the moon with a higher than normal gravitational field.

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mass communication
The transfer of information among groups of individuals of a kind that cannot be transmitted from a single individual to another.

Examples include the spatial organization of army-ant raids, the regulation of numbers of worker ants on odor trails, and certain aspects of the thermoregulation of nests.

This entry is located in the following unit: Ant and Related Entomology Terms (page 11)
mass-luminosity relation
An empirical relation between the mass and luminosity, both usually expressed in solar units, for main sequence stars.

For sunlike stars, the luminosity varies as the 3.5 power of the mass.

The power is smaller for lower mass stars.

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