relative molecular mass

1. 1.

   (chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule

   Synonymsmolecular weight

   Broadermass

   chemistry

Questions about relative molecular mass

What does relative molecular mass mean?

relative molecular mass means "(chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule".

What is another word for relative molecular mass?

Close synonyms include molecular weight. 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 relative molecular mass a common word?

relative molecular mass 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.