LOW MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Low Mass mean? 

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

1. a Mass recited without music

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW MASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Mass recited without music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Low Mass" is a kind of...):

Mass ((Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist)

 Context examples 

With such a low mass, it could be a gas giant similar to Jupiter that was ejected from its star system.

(A cold, close neighbor of the Sun, NASA)

The astronomers also determined that the two stars that merged were of relatively low mass, one being a red giant star with a mass somewhere between 0.8 and 2.5 times that of our Sun.

(Stellar Corpse Reveals Origin of Radioactive Molecules, ESO)

At the time of its discovery, scientists believed the TRAPPIST-1 system had to be at least 500 million years old, since it takes stars of TRAPPIST-1’s low mass (roughly 8 percent that of the Sun) roughly that long to contract to its minimum size, just a bit larger than the planet Jupiter.

(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)