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Definition of Mass unit
1. Noun. A unit of measurement for mass.
Specialized synonyms: Atomic Mass Unit, Mass Number, Nucleon Number, Avoirdupois Unit, Metric Weight Unit, Weight Unit, Slug
Literary usage of Mass unit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining Engineers' Handbook by Robert Peele (1918)
"But, the range of variation is so slight, that UK fl involved by assuming it
constant is negligible in most computations engineers' corresponding mass unit ..."
2. A Treatise on Infinitesimal Calculus: Containing Differential and Integral by Bartholomew Price (1868)
"... number of mass-units in a volume-unit, and g the number of earth's attraction-units
in a mass-unit: but how does the result of all this imply weight ? ..."
3. Internal Energy: A Method Proposed for the Calculation of Energy Stored by John Van Vorst Booraem (1906)
"But just as the mass must be looked upon as the acting mass unit, ... Hence the
relation of one of these volumes to the general mass unit will be ..."
4. The Measurement of General Exchange-value by Correa Moylan Walsh (1901)
"Vi/'i 4- Wi ) money -units for (yi + y») mass-units, wherefore the average price
of one mass-unit of FBI for both the periods is * money-unit, yi + y, ..."
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