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massless

adj
/ˈmæs.ləs/US

Etymology

From mass + -less.

  1. derived from *maǵ-✻ — “to oil, knead”
  2. derived from μᾶζα — “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”
  3. derived from massa
  4. derived from masse
  5. formed as massless — “mass + -less”

Definitions

  1. Having no mass.

    • The photon is a massless particle.
    • On the other hand, Pauli had just proposed a massless, chargeless, colorless, flavorless particle whose sole reason for existence was to preserve the principle of momentum conservation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for massless. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA