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RELATIVISTIC MASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does relativistic mass mean?
• RELATIVISTIC MASS (noun)
The noun RELATIVISTIC MASS has 1 sense:
1. (physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases
Familiarity information: RELATIVISTIC MASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) the mass of a body in motion relative to the observer: it is equal to the rest mass multiplied by a factor that is greater than 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("relativistic mass" is a kind of...):
mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
Domain category:
natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)
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