Mass Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementar ...

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) Mass were an England post-punk band. The band consisted of Gary Asquith, Mick Allen, Mark Cox, and Danny Briottet. Asquith, Allen and Cox had been members of Rema-Rema.Lazell, Barry (1998) ''Indie Hits 1980-1989'', Cherry Red Books, , p. 142 Mass ...

, 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 Mass media refers to a diverse array of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets. Broadcast media transmit information ...

, communication channels which can reach huge numbers of people * ''

The Masses ''The Masses'' was a graphically innovative magazine of socialist politics published monthly in the United States from 1911 until 1917, when federal prosecutors brought charges against its editors for conspiring to obstruct conscription. It was s ...

'', a socialist magazine published in the US from 1911 to 1917

Military

MASS (decoy system) Multi Ammunition Softkill System (MASS) is a naval self-defence system produced by Rheinmetall of Germany. It is connected to the ship's sensors and protects ships from attacks by advanced sensor-guided missiles by launching decoys that operate in ...

, a naval defence system *

M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System The M26-MASS (Modular Accessory Shotgun System) is a shotgun configured as an underbarrel ancillary weapon attachment mounted onto the handguard of a service rifle, usually the M16 rifle, M16/M4 carbine, M4 family of Military of the United States, ...

(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) Mass is a surname with either following meaning and origin: *North German and Dutch: from a short form of the personal name Thomas. Compare Maas, Mas. *Jewish (Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name from German Mass 'measure', 'measurement'. Pe ...

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. (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) Maß is a river of Bavaria, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Lauer in Maßbach. See also *List of rivers of Bavaria A list of rivers of Bavaria, Germany: A * Aalbach *Abens * Ach * Afferbach * Affinger Bach * Ailsbach *Aisch * Aiterach ...

(pronounced "mass"), a river of Bavaria, Germany, left tributary of the Lauer *

Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...

(abbreviated Mass or MA), a U.S. state in New England *

Massachusetts Bay Massachusetts Bay is a bay on the Gulf of Maine that forms part of the central coastline of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Description The bay extends from Cape Ann on the north to Plymouth Harbor on the south, a distance of about . Its ...

(abbreviated Mass Bay), a bay off the U.S. state of the same name

Religion

Mass (liturgy) Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term ''Mass'' is commonly used in the Catholic Church, in the Western Rite Orthodox, in Old Catholic, and in Independent Catholic churches. The term is ...

, 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 Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgy, liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term ''Mass'' is commonly used in the Catholic Church, in the Western Rite Orthodoxy, Western Rite Orthodox, in Old Catholic Church, Old Cathol ...

Society

Mass Party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or pol ...

, a political party in Thailand (2006–2009?) *

Mass society Mass society is a concept that describes modern society as a monolithic force and yet a disaggregate collection of individuals. It is often used pejoratively to refer to a society in which bureaucracy and impersonal institutions have replaced some ...

, a society based on relations between huge numbers of people, whose prototypical denizen is the "mass man" *

Mass politics Mass politics is a political order resting on the emergence of mass political parties. The emergence of mass politics generally associated with the rise of mass society coinciding with the Industrial Revolution in the West. However, because of ...

, politics in the mass society, featuring especially the modern political party

Other uses

Mass (mass spectrometry) The mass recorded by a mass spectrometer can refer to different physical quantities depending on the characteristics of the instrument and the manner in which the mass spectrum is displayed. Units The dalton (symbol: Da) is the standard unit tha ...

, 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 BrightBus was a bus operator in South Yorkshire that traded from 1998 until 2017. History BrightBus was founded in May 1998 by Michael Strafford as an engineering business, performing contract maintenance for other operators. It also specialis ...

, a former British vehicle body manufacturer and school bus operator that previously traded as MASS Engineering *

Maß ' (pronounced ) or ' ( Swiss spelling, elsewhere used for dialectal ) is the German word describing the amount of beer in a regulation mug, in modern times exactly . The same word is also often used as an abbreviation for ', the handled drinki ...

(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 Alliance Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School, also known as The Stern Math and Science School or Stern MASS, is a charter high school in the University Hills neighborhood in the City of Los Angeles. It is a collaboration between the Allianc ...

(Stern MASS) *

Tumor A neoplasm () is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue. The process that occurs to form or produce a neoplasm is called neoplasia. The growth of a neoplasm is uncoordinated with that of the normal surrounding tissue, and persists ...

, or mass, a neoplasm that is enlarged