Mass is the quantity of matter in a physical body and a measure of the body's inertia. Mass or Maß may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

Mass (music) The Mass ( la, missa) is a form of sacred musical composition that sets the invariable portions of the Christian Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism), known as the Mass. Most Mass ...

, a choral composition that sets liturgical text to music * ''Mass'' (Stravinsky), a composition by Igor Stravinsky * ''Mass'' (Bernstein), a musical theater work by Leonard Bernstein * Mass (English band), a post-punk band * ''Mass'' (Grotus album), 1996 * ''Mass'' (Alastair Galbraith album), 2011 * ''Mass'' (The Gazette album), 2021 * ''The Mass'' (album), by musical project Era

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Mass'' (2004 film), Indian Telugu-language film * ''Mass'' (2021 film), American drama film * ''Mass'' (novel), a 1973 novel by Filipino author F. Sionil José * Mass media, communication channels which can reach huge numbers of people * '' The Masses'', a socialist magazine published in the US from 1911 to 1917

Military

* MASS (decoy system), a naval defence system * M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System (or MASS), a developmental shotgun for the M16 rifle/M4 carbine family of guns *MASS, Marine Air Support Squadrons within the United States Marine Corps

People with the name

* Mass (surname) *

Peter Harris (producer) Peter Harris (born 1961), popularly known as Blu Peter, is a British electronic dance music producer and disc jockey from South Wales, who pioneered the nu-NRG music genre in the late 1990s. In the early 1990s, he served as resident DJ at ma ...

, an electronic musician who uses the alias Mass *

Mass Sarr, Jr. Mass Sarr Jr. (born February 6, 1973 in Monrovia) is a Liberian retired footballer. A forward, Sarr Jr. is a former player with Selangor FA. He was also a Liberia national football team player from 1989–2002. Playing career Sarr spent 18 mon ...

(born 1973), a Liberian former footballer

Places

Mass City, Michigan Mass City (also known as Mass) is an unincorporated community in Ontonagon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Mass City is located in Greenland Township along M-26, southeast of the village of Ontonagon. Mass City has its own post office w ...

, also known as Mass, an unincorporated community in the United States * Maß (Lauer) (pronounced "mass"), a river of Bavaria, Germany, left tributary of the Lauer * Massachusetts (abbreviated Mass or MA), a U.S. state in New England * Massachusetts Bay (abbreviated Mass Bay), a bay off the U.S. state of the same name

Religion

* Mass (liturgy), an act of worship in some Christian churches *

Mass in the Catholic Church The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ. As defined by the Church at the Council of Trent, in the Mass, "the same Christ ...

, the main act of worship of the Catholic Church * Sunday mass

Society

* Mass Party, a political party in Thailand (2006–2009?) * Mass society, a society based on relations between huge numbers of people, whose prototypical denizen is the "mass man" * Mass politics, politics in the mass society, featuring especially the modern political party

Other uses

* Mass (mass spectrometry), a chemical analysis technique *

Autonomous cargo ship Autonomous cargo ships, also known as autonomous container ships or maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS), are Unmanned surface vessel, crewless vessels that transport either Shipping container#Intermodal freight containers, containers or bulk c ...

, also known as a Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) * BrightBus, a former British vehicle body manufacturer and school bus operator that previously traded as MASS Engineering * Maß (pronounced "mass"), a German word describing the amount of beer in a regulation mug, also used for the mug itself *

Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS) ( Assamese মানৱ অধিকাৰ সংগ্ৰাম সমিতি) is a regional non-profit human rights NGO in Assam. It was founded in 1991 by Parag Kumar Das along with a group of intellectua ...

, a human rights NGO in Assam (India) * Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School (Stern MASS) * Tumor, or mass, a neoplasm that is enlarged