slaughter massacre
mass murder
carnage
butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
Turkish bath
steam bath
vapor bath
vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
| steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
| mass spectroscopy | the use of spectroscopy to determine the masses of small electrically charged particles |
| quality control | maintenance of standards of quality of manufactured goods |
| 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 |
boiler
steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
calliope
steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
| fraction | a small part or item forming a piece of a whole |
| 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 |
steam bath
steam room
vapor bath
vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
| steam chest | the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
| steam engine | externalombustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder |
steam heat
steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
| steam iron | a pressing iron that can emit steam |
steam line
steam pipe | a pipe conducting steam |
| steam locomotive | a locomotive powered by a steam engine |
| steam shovel | a power shovel that is driven by steam |
| steam turbine | turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn |
| steam whistle | a whistle in which the sound is produced by steam, usually attached to a steam boiler |
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) |
| quality | an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone, the quality of mercy is not strained--Shakespeare |
quality caliber
calibre | a degree or grade of excellence or worth, the quality of students has risen, an executive of low caliber |
superiority
high quality | the quality of being superior |
inferiority
low quality | an inferior quality |
| parental quality | a quality appropriate to a parent |
motherliness
maternalism
maternal quality
maternity | the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother, the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children |
fatherliness
paternal quality | the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father, the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears |
timbre
timber
quality tone | (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound), the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely, the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet |
| 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 |
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 |
| mass culture | the culture that is widely disseminated via the mass media |
quality
character
lineament | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something, each town has a quality all its own, the radical character of our demands |
| 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 |