Mass
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7.9
- noun
- /mæs/
:
misa
- The choir's performance of the Mozart Mass was truly uplifting and moved everyone in the audience.
We'll hear just a snippet of the glorious section of that mass.
- We'll hear just a snippet of the glorious section of that mass.
Examples
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Fig. 3 contains examples of patterns found in the Agnus II from the mass.
Academic text (2018) -
If you say a High Mass, Father, perhaps I could be your soloist.
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High mass... a choir and everything.
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I was listening to a lovely Hebrew mass
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It's part of the Box B minor Mass and the Saint Matthew Passion.
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She always preferred the music to the mass.
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I stopped saying requiem masses for the dead in favor of following the liturgical cycle.
Academic text (2014) -
White is also used in Requiem masses, although the official mourning color is purple.
Blog text (11) -
Some people might want Palestrina at mass, others Marty Haugen, and still others the St. Louis Jesuits.
Blog text (32) -
During the Easter celebrations, we attended a beautiful Mass performed by the choir.
Synonyms
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9.9
A piece of music for choir using the words of the Catholic Mass
Compounds
- Formal
96
4.8
A thing that can kill or injure many people, like nuclear, chemical and biological devices
- Specialized
5
5.7
Point in an object where we think its mass is concentrated for balance and movement
- Specialized
4
3.2
A number that shows if a person's weight is healthy for their height
- Specialized
3
5.5
A machine that measures the masses of charged particles from a sample
- Specialized
3
3.4
A large area of air with about the same temperature, humidity, and pressure
- Specialized
2
6.2
The smallest amount of nuclear material needed to start and keep a chain reaction
- Specialized
1
3.6
A number that tells how heavy one atom of an element is in atomic mass units
- Specialized
1
4.0
The total mass in a system that does not gain or lose matter stays the same over time
- Formal
1
4.9
A computer attack that can damage systems and harm many people
- Specialized
1
8.6
A measure of how hard it is to change an object's motion when a force pushes it
- Specialized
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7.4
The amount of matter in an object measured when it is not moving, not how heavy it feels
- Specialized
The speed of a chemical reaction depends on the amounts of the substances that react
- Specialized
The mass difference between a nucleus inside an atom and the total mass of its protons and neutrons
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Amount of mass missing when protons and neutrons join and release energy
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A word that names something you cannot count and usually has no plural form
A system of underground or above ground trains that carries many people quickly
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A machine that separates tiny charged parts of atoms by mass and shows them on a graph
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A theory that large areas of the brain work together for complex tasks
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The idea that mass can turn into energy and energy can turn into mass
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A measure of how strongly an object pulls other objects by gravity
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The mass of an atom compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
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The mass of all the atoms in one molecule compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
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The mass a moving object seems to have as its speed gets near the speed of light
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mass in music gets its name from the same church service: composers set the words of the missa to music. So a musical Mass is music written for that religious ceremony, often for choir and instruments.