RELATIVISTIC MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relativistic mass mean? 

• RELATIVISTIC MASS (noun)
  The noun RELATIVISTIC MASS has 1 sense:

1. (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 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases

  Familiarity information: RELATIVISTIC MASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVISTIC MASS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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 1 and that increases as the magnitude of the velocity increases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("relativistic mass" is a kind of...):

mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)

Domain category:

natural philosophy; physics (the science of matter and energy and their interactions)