massless

English

Etymology

Frommass+‎-less.

Pronunciation

• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈmæs.ləs/,/ˈmæs.lɪs/
• Rhymes:-æsləs

Adjective

massless(notcomparable)

1. Having nomass.

   The photon is amasslessparticle.

   • 2014,Mark A. Cunningham,Neoclassical Physics,page241:

     On the other hand, Pauli had just proposed amassless,chargeless, colorless, flavorless particle whose sole reason for existence was to preserve the principle of momentum conservation.

Antonyms

• massive

Derived terms

• masslessness

Translations

having no mass

• Chinese:

  Mandarin:Vô chất lượng／Vô chất lượng(wúzhìliàng, wúzhíliàng, wúzhǐliàng)

• Finnish:massaton(fi)
• German:masselos(de)
• Russian:безма́ссовый(ru)(bezmássovyj)