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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The physical mass of a body as measured by an observer who perceives the body as motionless. Rest mass is an inherent property of elementary particles.
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- noun physics the mass of a
body when it is notmoving relative to anobserver
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- noun (physics) the mass of a body as measured when the body is at rest relative to an observer, an inherent property of the body
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