LAND MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does land mass mean? 

• LAND MASS (noun)
  The noun LAND MASS has 1 sense:

1. a large continuous extent of land

  Familiarity information: LAND MASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAND MASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large continuous extent of land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

land mass; landmass

Hypernyms ("land mass" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "land mass"):

continent (one of the large landmasses of the earth)

subcontinent (a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent)

 Context examples 

A land mass smaller than a continent that is surrounded by water.

(Island, NCI Thesaurus)

Both Earth and its Moon experience what's known as tectonics, processes that push up mountains, rip apart land masses and create quakes.

(Study Finds New Wrinkles on Earth's Moon, NASA)

Pritchard said this so-called forest effect dominates atmospheric responses to CO2 on most land masses up to 30 degrees north and south of the equator, which is where most people live.

(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)

Ice shelves are not actually part of the land mass with which they are associated.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

Tectonic movements that relate to the continental land masses.

(Continental processes, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)