MASSE (masses)

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Irregular inflected form: masses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does masse mean? 

• MASSE (noun)
  The noun MASSE has 1 sense:

1. a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball

  Familiarity information: MASSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

masse; masse shot

Hypernyms ("masse" is a kind of...):

shot; stroke ((sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand)

Holonyms ("masse" is a part of...):

billiards (any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls)

pocket billiards; pool (any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets)

 Context examples 

Weighing in at 12.6 Earth masses, the planet is more massive than Earth but less massive than Neptune (which is more than 17 Earth masses).

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

And knowing the masses of the two giant galaxies will help to reveal the details of our ultimate fate.

(No Winner in Milky Way-Andromeda Clash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The merging stars likely had masses between 10 and 60 percent greater than that of our Sun, but they were no wider than Washington, D.C.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

The sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule.

(Molecular mass, NCI Thesaurus)

The cluster contains approximately 100 million-million solar masses, and contains 51 confirmed galaxies and perhaps over 400 more.

(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)

Taking things a step further, by calculating the balance states for all of the objects in the galaxy, the team was able to calculate all their masses.

(Researchers Estimate Mass of Milky Way to Be 3.9 Tredecillion Pounds, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Most patients present with painless subcutaneous masses.

(Ossifying Fibromyxoid Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 present with multiple masses.

(Neurofibroma, NCI Thesaurus)

Minute protoplasmic masses that make up organized tissue, consisting of a nucleus which is surrounded by protoplasm which contains the various organelles and is enclosed in the cell or plasma membrane.

(Murine Cell Types, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

They are two of the nearest regions in which massive stars - with masses upwards of 10 times that of the Sun - have been observed to be forming.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)