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REST MASS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rest mass mean?
• REST MASS (noun)
The noun REST MASS has 1 sense:
1. (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body
Familiarity information: REST MASS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("rest 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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