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 (band), an English post-punk band
  • 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 (Grotus album), 1996
  • Mass (The Gazette album), 2021
  • The Mass (album), by musical project Era
  • Mass, a 2011 album by New Zealand musician Alastair Galbraith

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
  • 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), 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) (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 main act of worship of the Catholic Church

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

  • BrightBus, a former British vehicle body manufacturer and school bus operator that previously traded as MASS Engineering
  • Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti, a human rights NGO in Assam (India)
  • Marc and Eva Stern Math and Science School (Stern MASS)
  • Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship, An autonomous cargo ship
  • Maß (pronounced "mass"), a German word describing the amount of beer in a regulation mug, also used for the mug itself
  • Mass (mass spectrometry), a chemical analysis technique
  • Mass (object), a high-density object
  • Mawson Analytical Spectrometry Services, services offered at the University of Adelaide, Australia
  • Tumor, or mass, a neoplasm that is enlarged

See also

  • Landmass or land mass, a continuous area of land
  • Massive (disambiguation)
  • Weight (disambiguation)