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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The energy equivalent of the rest mass of a body, equal to the rest mass multiplied by the speed of light squared.
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- noun physics The energy of the
mass component of a body at rest; equal to the product itsrest mass and the square of thespeed of light
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- noun the energy equivalent to the mass of a particle at rest in an inertial frame of reference; equal to the rest mass times the square of the speed of light
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