whole
unit | an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity, how big is that part compared to the whole?, the team is a unit |
slaughter massacre
mass murder
carnage
butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
| mass spectroscopy | the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles |
| mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
| Mass | (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist |
| High Mass | a solemn and elaborate Mass with music |
| Low Mass | a Mass recited without music |
symbolatry
symbololatry
symbol-worship | the worship of symbols |
booster booster rocket
booster unit
takeoff booster
takeoff rocket | the first stage of a multistage rocket |
Bunker Buster
Guided Bomb Unit-
GBU- | a , pound laser-guided bomb that can be programmed to penetrate to a given depth before exploding, used to penetrate hardened underground facilities |
central processing unit
CPU
C.P.U.
central processor
processor
mainframe | (computer science) the part of a computer (a microprocessor chip) that does most of the data processing, the CPU and the memory form the central part of a computer to which the peripherals are attached |
loudspeaker
speaker
speaker unit
loudspeaker system
speaker system | electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance |
| mass spectrograph | a mass spectrometer that produces a graphical representation of the mass spectrum |
mass spectrometer
spectrometer | spectroscope for obtaining a mass spectrum by deflecting ions into a thin slit and measuring the ion current with an electrometer |
rapid transit
mass rapid transit | an urban public transit system using underground or elevated trains |
round unit of ammunition
one shot | a charge of ammunition for a single shot |
semiconductor device
semiconductor unit
semiconductor | a conductor made with semiconducting material |
visual display unit
VDU | (British) British term for video display |
| wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
weapon of mass destruction
WMD
W.M.D. | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) |
| unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene |
| mass | the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field |
| critical mass | the minimum mass of fissionable material that can sustain a chain reaction |
| rest mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body |
| relativistic mass | (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 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases |
| gravitational mass | (physics) the mass of a body as measured by its gravitational attraction for other bodies |
| inertial mass | (physics) the mass of a body as determined by the second law of motion from the acceleration of the body when it is subjected to a force that is not due to gravity |
atomic mass
atomic weight
relative atomic mass | (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units |
| mass energy | (physics) the mass of a body regarded relativistically as energy |
molecular weight
relative molecular mass | (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule |
molarity
molar concentration
M | concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution |
bulk
mass volume | the property of something that is great in magnitude, it is cheaper to buy it in bulk, he received a mass of correspondence, the volume of exports |
| critical mass | the minimum amount (of something) required to start or maintain a venture, the battle for the computer market has now reached critical mass, there is now a critical mass of successful women to take the lead, they sold the business because it lacked critical mass |
molar
grinder | grinding tooth with a broad crown, located behind the premolars |
| mass culture | the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media |
symbol
symbolization
symbolisation
symbolic representation | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible, the eagle is a symbol of the United States |
| unit | a single undivided whole, an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another |
| law of mass action | (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances |
| mass-energy equivalence | (physics) the principle that a measured quantity of mass is equivalent (according to relativity theory) to a measured quantity of energy |
mass-action principle
mass action | (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 |
conservation of mass
conservation of matter
law of conservation of mass
law of conservation of matter | a fundamental principle of classical physics that matter cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system |
| medium mass medium | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public |
language unit
linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
| mass noun | a noun that does not form plurals |
| stock symbol | the letters used to identify listed companies on the securities exchanges where they are traded |
| Mass card | (Roman Catholic Church) a card sent to a bereaved family that says the sender has arranged for a Mass to be said in memory of the deceased |
body mass index
BMI | a measure of someone's weight in relation to height, to calculate one's BMI, multiply one's weight in pounds and divide that by the square of one's height in inches, overweight is a BMI greater than , obese is a BMI greater than |
| symbol | an arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance |
written symbol
printed symbol | a written or printed symbol |
character
grapheme
graphic symbol | a written symbol that is used to represent speech, the Greek alphabet has characters |