RELATIVE ATOMIC MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relative atomic mass mean? 

• RELATIVE ATOMIC MASS (noun)
  The noun RELATIVE ATOMIC MASS has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVE ATOMIC MASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

atomic mass; atomic weight; relative atomic mass

Hypernyms ("relative atomic mass" is a kind of...):

mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

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

combining weight; eq; equivalent; equivalent weight (the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen)

meq; milliequivalent (one-thousandth of an equivalent)