mass deficiency

1. 1.

   the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of its constituent particles

   Synonymsmass defect

   Broadermass

Questions about mass deficiency

What does mass deficiency mean?

mass deficiency means "the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus is less than the sum of the masses of its constituent particles".

What is another word for mass deficiency?

Close synonyms include mass defect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mass deficiency a common word?

mass deficiency is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.