Definition of Mass action

1. Noun. (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning.

Exact synonyms: Mass-action Principle
Generic synonyms: Principle, Rule
Category relationships: Neurology

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mass Action

masques
masquing
masrium

Literary usage of Mass action

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Principles of General Physiology by William Maddock Bayliss (1920)
"Before proceeding further, some additional remarks on the law of mass action, especially on its history, are required. Before the time of Berthollet (1799), ..."

2. Report (1904)
"*THE RELATION OF mass action AND PHYSICAL AFFINITY TO TOXICITY. ... The perceptible effect of mass action seems to reach a limit at, or near, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"enzyme, deviates considerably from what we should expect on the basis of the law of mass action. In the inversion of sucrose by invertase, for example, ..."

4. Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates by Gustav Mann, Walther Löb, Henry William Frederic Lorenz, Robert Wiedersheim, William Newton Parker, Thomas Jeffery Parker, Harry Clary Jones, Sunao Tawara, Leverett White Brownell, Max Julius Louis Le Blanc, Willis Rodney Whitney, John Wesley Brown, Wi (1907)
"... of a generalization which underlies all chemical dynamics and statics, — The Law of mass action. THE LAW OF mass action The Work of Guldberg and Waage. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"The relationship between these required by the law of mass action is K 0 -'- and the validity of the law in the case of this reaction is shown by the fact ..."

6. Theoretical Chemistry from the Standpoint of Avogadro's Rule & Thermodynamics by Walther Nernst (1904)
"The History of the Law of Mass-Action.—The first theory of the action of chemical forces is that which was developed by the Swedish chemist, Bergman, ..."

7. Modern French Legal Philosophy by Alfred Fouillée, Alfred Jules Emile Fouillee (1916)
"The Principle of mass action. The second rule which must be followed by those who study the law and seek to assure its domination, is that the human mind ..."

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