RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relative molecular mass mean? 

• RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS (noun)
  The noun RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

molecular weight; relative molecular mass

Hypernyms ("relative molecular mass" is a kind of...):

mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)