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 eleme ...

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), 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 informati ...

, 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 ...

'', 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/ M4 family of United States military, essentially making the host ...

(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), an electronic musician who uses the alias Mass * Mass Sarr, Jr. (born 1973), a Liberian former footballer

Places

* Mass City, Michigan, 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 *

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(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 ...

, an act of worship in some Christian churches * Mass in the Catholic Church, the main act of worship of the Catholic Church *

Sunday mass 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 ...

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), a chemical analysis technique *Autonomous cargo ship, 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, 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