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Definition of Masses

1. Noun. The common people generally. "Power to the people"

Definition of Masses

1. Noun. (plural of Mass) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of mass) ¹

3. Noun. (context: generically) People, especially a large number of people ¹

4. Noun. The total population. ¹

5. Noun. The lower classes or all but the elite. ¹

6. Verb. (third-person singular of mass) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Masses

1. mass [v] - See also: mass

Literary usage of Masses

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"SCIENCE directly connected with the shield and the large masses if a rapid change was desired. When either the positive or the negative terminal of the ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"When a number of masses all move in one plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation as FIG. 1. <D2/rm, in Fig. 1 the criterion for a balanced system of ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"These are votive masses. The principle of the votive Mass is older than its name. ... Indeed the masses for ordination and for the dead, which occur in this ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Epidote (a variable silicate of lime, alumina, iron, or manganese) occurs in yellow or greenish translucent crystals or crystalline masses in many of tho ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"As the result of four years of patient labour he was persuaded that, contrary to the views expressed by Sir R. Murchison [qv] in 1858, these two masses in ..."

6. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"200) ; two masses, and three symphonies, (op. 79 in A, op. ... Incidentally it may be mentioned that in 1589 Lassus dedicated a book of six masses, ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"The fibres end in the gray masses of the pons. There is no direct connection between the cerebellum and cerebrum. All the fibres from one end in nuclei, ..."

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